Butler Rally-Goers Wrestle with the Possibility of a Trump Loss

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Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump attends a rally at the site of the July assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pa., October 5, 2024.

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Butler, Pa. — After racking her brain for a few seconds, Norma Holm estimates that she’s been to 20 Donald Trump rallies to date. A resident of Hammond, Ind., the “Front Row Joes” jacket-sporting rally-goer says she traveled seven hours to watch the former president’s triumphant return to the Butler fairgrounds, where back in July, a gunman’s fire had grazed Trump’s ear, killed one man, and wounded others.

Holm insists that her 20-rally rally — which could probably put many national political reporters to shame — is nothing compared with the lengths that others Trump supporters will go to demonstrate their fandom. Some Trump-rally regulars arrive two days early so that they can get the best seats in the house, she said. “They sleep on the sidewalk. They secure their area. They come from all over.”

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Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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