2024 ELECTIONS
A candidate in a different race returned to the site of the Republican National Convention.
Donald Trump returned to Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO
By Natalie Allison
11/01/2024 11:33 PM EDT
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MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump was at the pinnacle of his third presidential bid when he walked into Fiserv Forum less than four months ago, his ear bandaged after surviving an assassination attempt and his poll numbers surging against a weakened opponent.
This time, the rendition of his “God Bless the USA” walkup song wasn’t a live performance. The iconic bandage was gone. And Trump, on a final sprint through the battleground states, is fighting to win a race that Kamala Harris has made a virtual tie.
“You remember, just five months ago, everybody was saying she couldn’t run, she’s grossly incompetent, she was the worst vice president in history,” Trump said from the arena where the Republican National Convention was held in July, at a time when his victory, to many, seemed inevitable.
He made his usual exaggerated claims about his standing in the polls — but told his........