Donald Trump made a triumphant entrance to cap the first day of the Republican National Convention, receiving a raucous ovation from the party faithful days after surviving an assassination attempt that has reshaped the presidential contest, writes Reuters.

The former president walked into the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee to an uproarious response, his ear heavily bandaged from having been grazed by a bullet, hours after he was officially nominated to be the party’s 2024 standard-bearer.

“Fight! Fight! Fight!" the crowd chanted while pumping their fists, a reference to Trump’s own response in the moments after he was shot. Uncharacteristically subdued, Trump waved from a box where he sat alongside his newly anointed running mate, U.S. Senator J.D. Vance.

The attack at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, which killed a supporter, underscored the nation’s deeply fractured political landscape ahead of the Nov. 5 election between Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden.