Trump is returning to the scene of his assassination attempt. What’s changed?

Donald Trump is heading back to the Butler, Pennsylvania venue where he survived an assassination attempt three months ago — but the 2024 race has dramatically changed since then.

July 13 — the day that a lone gunman opened fire at the Butler rally, killing one, and injuring others, including the former president — marked a pivotal moment in the highly contested race.

Since then, President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, a heavily scrutinized Secret Service identified its failures and underwent sweeping changes, Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate, enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris grew and Trump lost his lead in the polls, and yet another assassination attempt against Trump unfolded on September 15 at his golf course.

The image of Trump triumphantly pumping his fist in the air with blood dripping across his face seems to have faded amid the race’s many fluctuations. The GOP nominee could remind voters of that visual as he returns to Butler on Saturday.

“I’m going back to Butler because I feel I have an obligation to go back to Butler. We never finished what we were supposed to do,” Trump told NewsNation earlier this week. “I said that day, when I was shot, I said: ‘We’re coming back. We’re going to come back.’ And I’m fulfilling a promise. I’m fulfilling, really, an obligation.”

While the campaign told CNN that this rally will be “different,” the former president himself earlier this week vowed that the campaign event will pick up where it left off a few months ago: “I think I’ll start the speech by saying, ‘As I was saying.’”

The campaign meant this rally will differ from typical Trump campaign events because there will be a tribute to victims of the tragedy. But the rally will likely differ in other