14th July 2024, 9:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 14th July 2024, 9:50 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Very difficult to fight against? How so? A 20 year old registered Republican white guy with so far no clear political trail online shot at Trump for an unknown reason. It's not something they can easily politicize, probably more of a lone nut kind of thing.
It may cause a small polling bump for Trump, though it may be hard to detect given that the Republican National Convention starts in two days and conventions always cause a polling bump, but I see little reason to think that this will have any significant role on peoples votes in November. No, most people like Trump or hate him and aren't going to swing their votes based on this. It's an extremely polarized election, the only question is who turns up to vote.
But yeah, Trump, our number one purveyor of conspiracies and anti-democratic sentiments, got shot at... by what seems like one of his own, not by a liberal. This kind of makes sense though in so much as it's the right that loves guns so much, much more so than the middle or most of the left. I highly doubt this will cause Trump to rethink any of his support for guns, though. The right-wing gun cult is horrible but even getting shot at doesn't seem to convince these people otherwise, see Steve Scalise for an example of this.
(As for that $15 donation to a Democratic group, it happened right at Biden's inauguration in 2020, when the guy was 17. Maybe he lost a bet about the election. That's as good a theory that I've seen as any.)
It may cause a small polling bump for Trump, though it may be hard to detect given that the Republican National Convention starts in two days and conventions always cause a polling bump, but I see little reason to think that this will have any significant role on peoples votes in November. No, most people like Trump or hate him and aren't going to swing their votes based on this. It's an extremely polarized election, the only question is who turns up to vote.
But yeah, Trump, our number one purveyor of conspiracies and anti-democratic sentiments, got shot at... by what seems like one of his own, not by a liberal. This kind of makes sense though in so much as it's the right that loves guns so much, much more so than the middle or most of the left. I highly doubt this will cause Trump to rethink any of his support for guns, though. The right-wing gun cult is horrible but even getting shot at doesn't seem to convince these people otherwise, see Steve Scalise for an example of this.
(As for that $15 donation to a Democratic group, it happened right at Biden's inauguration in 2020, when the guy was 17. Maybe he lost a bet about the election. That's as good a theory that I've seen as any.)
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