MOMENTS AFTER TOUCHING down in Wisconsin on Saturday for the Republican National Convention, Silicon Valley’s top GOP leader learned that a shooter attempted to gun down former President Donald Trump.
“Everybody was really concerned. It was a pretty shocking and historic day,” Shane Patrick Connolly, chairman of the Santa Clara County Republican Party, told San José Spotlight. He said he had just stepped off the plane — his phone hadn’t even caught up to new texts yet — when someone next to him announced that for the first time in 43 years, a former U.S. president was wounded in a failed assassination.
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