“The ear hurts like hell, but will feel better in November,” read a sign from a man who had taped a piece of paper to the right side of his face with masking tape and covered it with an American flag Band-Aid. Most of the bandagers appeared to be from Arizona, a key swing state where Trump is running ahead of President Joe Biden. Craig Berland, the GOP chairman in Maricopa County, Arizona, said a bunch of delegates came up with the idea Tuesday on their bus. It began with some paper; then they bought medical gauze. “It was a funny thing to do, but it was a serious thing because of the tragedy that happened,” Berland said. Liz Harris, a delegate from Chandler, Arizona, said she cried upon learning the news of the attempt on Trump’s life. “Then I got upset,” she said, a bandage covering her right extremity. “I’ve been to many Trump rallies, and he’s just a sitting duck up there. You just pray nothing like this happens, and then it happened. It was sad.”
