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America’s Heart Shines Through—Even at Assassination Attempt

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America’s Heart Shines Through—Even at Assassination Attempt
People hug after Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar
Salena Zito
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BUTLER, Pa.—Just more than four hours before former President Donald J. Trump was set to speak at the Butler Farm Show Complex off Buttermilk Road, Harry Norman—like 50,000 other people who came to spend the day at the rally—was walking across the freshly cut pastures that surrounded the stage from which former President Trump would speak.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.