Donald Trump will reappear after an assassination attempt as an even greater mythical hero of his MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement as the Republican National Convention opens on Monday (15), after two extraordinary weeks that have transformed the 2024 election campaign.
More than 24 hours later, the horror of Saturday’s (13) shooting is just beginning to distill into a shocking new national trauma.
But both the former president and President Joe Biden are planning how to navigate the political fallout.
An assassination attempt on a presidential candidate, with all the historical allusions it evokes, raises fears that bloodshed will beget more bloodshed as the toxic politics of the past decade threaten to take an even more sinister turn.
“A former president was shot, an American citizen was killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choice. We cannot — must not — go down this path in America,” Biden said, calling for calm and unity in a polarized nation in an Oval Office address on Sunday night (14).
The president mourned the death of Corey Comperatore, a firefighter and father who died at a Trump rally protecting his family and joined the haunting list of Americans who have lost their lives to political violence.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, joined calls for restraint, telling the CNN : “This is a dark moment in the history of the country. This is a dangerous moment. And we have been suggesting that all elected officials, from the president and below, really try to bring the country together. We need a unified message. We need to lower the temperature.”
In his first interview since the assassination attempt, the former president promised that his keynote address at the convention on Thursday (18) — which was supposed to be an update of his 2017 “American carnage” inaugural address — would be “very different.”
“This is a chance to unite the entire country, even the entire world,” Trump told Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner.
Watch the moment Trump is injured at a rally in the US
Source: CNN Brasil
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