MIAMI.- Dozens of vehicles left Miami-Dade at noon on Sunday bound for the former president’s mansion Donald Trump in Palm Beach, in a caravan of support for the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, following Saturday’s failed attack in Pennsylvania.
The parade, organized by Conservative Patriots for Trump, set out from the parking lot of the Westland Mall in Hialeah amid cheers and honking cars adorned with flags and banners alluding to the former president.
Raumar Menéndez, president of the organization that organized the caravan, called the criminal attack against Trump “an attack on the democracy of a great nation and on a leader that the leftists of this country want to eliminate.”
Menendez, visibly moved, led a prayer for the former president’s health and called for support for Trump as a show of solidarity with the candidate, his family and his thousands of followers.
According to the parade schedule, the vehicles were parked at a point near Mar-a-Lago, the presidential candidate’s residence in Palm Beach, where organizers hoped to attract more participants.
Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Carlos Garín, who also joined the caravan, said that “with only two days to go until the Republican convention, if anyone would benefit from the assassination of President Trump, it would be the establishment (power groups) to name another candidate.”
Some people at the starting point of the parade wore T-shirts with the legend “Trump 2024 Never Surrender” (never gives up) and a photograph of the former president with blood on his face after being injured at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Bryan Calvo, a former Hialeah councilman and candidate for county tax collector, declared that “political violence should not be allowed in this country” and predicted a Trump victory as voters’ response to the attack.
“People’s support will increase; those who were undecided will surely support him now,” he said.