RNC co-chair Lara Trump shares sadness behind watching someone 'try to kill a person you love'

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump closed out Day 2 of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a 20-minute speech that began by addressing the assassination attempt on her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump.

She said she had an "entirely different speech" planned prior to the shooting at Trump's Pennsylvania rally on Saturday that left one man dead and three others, including Trump himself, wounded.

"Nothing prepares you for a moment like that," she said. "Our family has faced our fair share of death threats, mysterious powders sent to our homes, tasteless and violent comments directed towards us on social media, but none of that prepares you as a daughter-in-law to watch in real time someone try to kill a person you love."

She continued: "None of that prepares you as a mother to quickly reach for the remote and turn your young children away from the screen so that they're not witness to something that scars the memory of their grandpa for the rest of their lives."

Lara shared a lot of praise for the former president not only for his role in politics, but his role as a father and grandfather. She also touched on the love shown and felt among Trump supporters, especially over the past few days in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump.

"You would be hard pressed to find and to join a happier group of people coming together over their love for the greatest country on Earth, the United States of America," she said.

Lara spent time highlighting some of the successes of the Trump administration during his first term, such as stricter immigration laws, peace in the Middle East and comprehensive prison reform, knocking the "outrageous narrative" that Trump will do "terrible things" if re-elected.

"You didn't have to love everything that he tweeted, but you cannot deny you were better off when Donald Trump was in office," she said.