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David Smith in Washington

Blood and bravado: the Trump shooting upended an election and shook the US

a man with a bloodied ear is rushed offstage
Donald Trump is rushed offstage by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 2024. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Blake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile on the former US president. “I was able to see him standing and I could see the blood on his ear,” Marnell recalls. “When he put his fist up, I remember yelling, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’”

Sunday marks one year since the assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a week that changed US politics. Eight days later then-president Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the election race amid concerns over his mental and physical decline.

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