Eerie assassination reference greets delegates picking up RNC credentials

MILWAUKEE — Assassination was in the air at the Republican National Convention, even before news of another possible Donald Trump assassination plot — this one hatched in Iran — broke Tuesday.

“Fight, fight, fight,” delegates chanted as former President Donald Trump greeted attendees Monday evening after surviving a would-be assassin's bullet at a campaign event Saturday in Pennsylvania.

But Trump is not the first populist former president to defy death before leaving an indelible mark on this Midwestern city.