MILWAUKEE (KYW Newsradio) — The momentum from Day One of the Republican National Convention is carrying into Day Two, and the Pennsylvania delegation is feeling the energy. Speakers at the delegation breakfast Tuesday morning talked quite a bit about divine intervention in the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump over the weekend.
RNC co-chair Lara Trump, the GOP presidential candidate's daughter-in-law, shared one of the first things he said to his family at the hospital on Saturday.
“He said, ‘And we are not changing a single thing. Our convention will go on. Our campaign will go on. We have to win on Nov. 5. Nothing changes,’” she said. “And I give him credit for that.”
Lara Trump says she believes higher forces were involved.
“This is not even about Republican versus Democrat or left versus right anymore. I've said it a lot: It's about good versus evil,” she said. “We are in a spiritual battle right now in this country. We can feel it. And that is going to be the difference.”
She was followed in religious imagery by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I talked to the president about it last night. I said, ‘Mr. President, it's a profound thing to have been ordained by God to lead the greatest nation in the history of the world for a second time,’” Johnson said.
Johnson said a GoFundMe campaign for the family of the man who was killed in the assassination attempt has raised more than $4.5 million.
Lara Trump told the Pennsylvania delegation that, for the first time in the election cycle, the RNC and the Trump campaign have joined forces and are laser focused.
“We say we have to win Pennsylvania and one more battleground state,” she said. “Let me tell you guys something: We're taking nothing for granted. We're gonna keep our foot on the gas in this election. But get ready to see a lot of red on that map.”
She says the campaign is encouraging everyone to vote as early as possible, whether by mail or early voting to make these election results, in her words, “too big to rig.”
Pennsylvania State Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward also addressed the delegation, urging members to work on the down-ballot races.
Ward says Gov. Josh Shapiro hides behind the divided legislature when it comes to difficult issues, saying he can’t get it done because Republicans in the Senate or Democrats in the House will block it.
Republicans need to take back the Pennsylvania House, Ward said, so they can put Shapiro on the spot so — in her words — he’s never on a national ballot.