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A spray of bullets may have only grazed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, but they killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others.They have also torn through the 2024 presidential campaign, damaging the social and cultural fabric of the nation.
Already, there have been some bipartisan calls for a cooling of rhetoric and national unity.Within hours of the incident, President Joe Biden – Trump’s likely opponent in November – appeared before cameras in Delaware to make a statement to the press.“There is no place in America for this kind of violence.
He cut short his weekend at the beach and is returning to the White House late Saturday evening.But the violence has also quickly filtered into the bare-knuckle partisan trench-warfare that has characterised American politics in recent decades.
Some Republican politicians have laid the blame for the attack on Democrats who have employed dire rhetoric about the threat they say the former president poses to American democracy.“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Ohio Senator JD Vance, who is reportedly on the shortlist to be Trump’s vice-presidential pick, posted on social media.
“That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s assassination attempt.”Chris LaCivita, the Trump campaign manager, said that “leftist activists, Democratic donors and even Joe Biden” need to be held accountable at the ballot box in November for “disgusting remarks” that in his view led to Saturday’s attack.Democrats may object, but many on the left used similar language to describe the culpability of right-wing rhetoric in the months before the 2011 near-fatal shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona.
Security protocols will be tightened, and the protests – and counter-protests – near the site could be accompanied by a new sense of foreboding.Meanwhile, an even brighter national spotlight will shine on the party’s nominee when he takes the stage on Thursday night.Images of the former president, bloodied, with an upraised fist are sure to become a rallying point in Milwaukee.
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