Reporter reveals what media missed about Trump’s enchantment to voters

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In her new e book, "Butler: The Untold Story of the Close to Assassination of Donald Trump and the Combat for America's Heartland," launched simply days earlier than the primary anniversary of the assassination try on President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, veteran political reporter Salena Zito reveals what she believes is the one ingredient the mainstream media has missed of their protection of his rallies.

The Pennsylvania-based instructed Fox Information Digital that when she first interviewed Trump throughout his 2016 run, she seen how he interacted with "the folks behind the scenes – the janitors, the people who had been pushing the water bottles, the caterers, the plumbers, the electricians, the people who made the occasion occur which might be by no means seen."

Zito stated she noticed Trump speaking with American voters with an authenticity and curiosity that she hadn't seen in numerous politicians.

"I understood in that second that he wasn't a billionaire working for president, he was a man that noticed folks that do not often get seen by elected officers, in a means that was very distinctive. Between that and driving throughout the nation and interviewing folks, I understood that he was going to win that cycle," Zito stated of the 2016 election.

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Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to talk throughout a marketing campaign rally at Sundown Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 9, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP through Getty Photos)

Flash ahead to Trump's 2024 presidential marketing campaign.

"What I seen overlaying 2024 was the quantity of younger people who had been on the market, that had been engaged, that had been excited, that had been voting for the primary time, and actually excited to be a part of ‘larger than self’… and so they actually glommed on and have become enthusiastic about the best way that President Trump talks about Americanism and love of nation and attending to a greater place collectively," Zito stated.

JOURNALIST WHO REFUSED TO DUCK DURING TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT REFLECTS ON BUTLER RALLY IN NEW BOOK

Salena Zito takes cowl together with her daughter and son-in-law after Donald Trump's tried assassination at a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)

Zito's e book takes readers again to July 13, 2024, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a number of gunshots into the Butler crowd, grazing Trump's ear, injuring two folks and killing one rally attendee, firefighter Corey Comperatore. She had deliberate to interview Trump on the Butler rally and was mere steps away from him when the photographs had been fired.

However when Zito heard the photographs, she instructed Fox Information Digital, "I did not get down. There was this interior voice that instructed me, ‘You've a job to do, proceed doing it.’" As a journalist, Zito rapidly started to commit the historic second to reminiscence because it was unfolding, gathering particulars that finally led to her e book.

Supporters of then-President-Elect Donald Trump attend a rally at Capital One Enviornment in Washington D.C., on Sunday Jan. nineteenth, 2025, the eve of Inauguration Day. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox Information Digital)

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All through the marketing campaign, Zito stated she might really feel that sense of group constructing at Trump rallies. Whereas his supporters have numerous levels of assist for the president, at Trump rallies, she stated they're blissful, patriotic and excited.

"Trump pulled them collectively by place and rootedness and connective tissue, and it was actually, actually missed by my career, nevertheless it was so proper in entrance of me all over the place I went in Pennsylvania."