Butler County in Western Pennsylvania is rock solid Trump country.In front yards, on the sides of roads and at the gas stations, the messages on the billboards are blunt.
“Bulletproof” is one, on a picture of the former president with his fist raised, moments after he was shot in this very town.
Another, more overtly political, reads: “Even my dog hates Biden.”
The former president got twice as many votes as Joe Biden here in 2020, beating Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a similar margin.
In fact, this county has only voted Democrat once in the past 150 years of presidential elections.
Butler has always been proud to be known as the home of the American Jeep but this year it is better remembered for one thing – where a former Republican president was inches away from being assassinated.
A bullet grazed his ear that day, on 13 July, and Butler is undergoing its own healing process as Donald Trump returns to the same spot, the Farm Show grounds, for a rally on Saturday evening.