Spiritual tone at RNC heightened in wake of Trump assassination attempt

“God was with me,” Trump said on Wednesday while speaking to a group of convention delegates, adding the close call “in many ways changes your attitude, your viewpoint on life. I think, honestly, you appreciate God even more.” | Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Acknowledgement of the supernatural is off the charts at this year’s Republican National Convention in the wake of former U.S. president Donald Trump’s harrowingly narrow escape from an assassination attempt.

Invoking the presence and blessing of the Author of Life, at both the Democratic and Republican parties’ presidential nominating conventions, is usually limited to just the opening and closing prayers of convention sessions or a closing phrase in a speech.

This year, however, former president Trump and his supporters have frequently invoked God’s role in human affairs. The day before the convention began, which was the day after a just-in-time turn of Trump’s head prevented a bullet from killing him, the former president himself credited “God alone” for saving his life. His supporters have frequently echoed that sentiment, both in conversations and in speeches from the convention podium.

“God was with me,” Trump said on Wednesday while speaking to a group of convention delegates, adding that the close call “in many ways changes your attitude, your viewpoint on life. I think, honestly, you appreciate God even more.”

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