Posted on 07/14/2024 11:20:30 AM PDT by conservative98
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The pictures and film of Trump rallying the crowd will likely be the enduring image of this election and perhaps his entire political career.
Even before President Biden’s catastrophic debate last month, Trump had run on a platform of strength, portraying himself as a politically muscular figure against a weak and aging incumbent president. Next week’s Republican nominating convention will deliver Trump a hero’s welcome and an audience to match, befitting a party leader who had a brush with death.
“The raised fist will become the iconic symbol of the convention,” predicted longtime GOP strategist Mike Murphy.
Convention planners had already successive evening themes dedicated to making America “safe” and “strong” again, sessions that will, along with Trump’s expected cameo with his new running mate the opening night, be vivified with new meaning after the shooting.
The former president is likely to enjoy a rallying effect in immediate polls, with more independents likely shifting his way. “There will be some good, old-fashioned American compassion for Trump,” predicted Murphy, who opposes the former president’s campaign.
What’s less clear is whether the shooting hastens Democratic calls for Biden to withdraw from the race. Most elected Democrats responded to the shooting by denouncing political violence and few wanted to discuss how it may echo in the campaign.
Yet in private, many Democratic political veterans were bracing for Trump to enjoy a convention bounce larger than he could have ever hoped to enjoy in such divided times. And it wasn’t difficult to detect a sense of doom, that an already uphill campaign may have become out of reach.
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he knows whos out to get him and so do we
For months, I’ve been thinking of Benigno S. Aquino Jr... i am worried the Democrat crazies will pour out of the shadows now. His security needs to be dramatically increased without delay.
Donald Trump is a BADASS and all the pinhead liberals know it.
The Secret Service perched up high, aiming their sniper rifle at the perp, but not shooting until after the perp fired multiple shots at President Trump. Witnesses on the ground pointing out the perp to police and the Secret Service, but nothing done to stop the perp from getting in position and firing his rifle at President Trump. Is that truly "security"?
I prefer to think of Trump as a reincarnation of Chesty Puller...
best photo - ever
when they put his face on Mt Rushmore “They gonna need a bigger mountain”
#MAGA
I want this T-shirt!:
Trump is a Godly man. No other person today could endure the many forms of assault against him.
The pictures I have seen showed snipers facing to the Left. The shots came from Trump’s right and hit his left ear after traveling behind his head. I’m not sure those photos are of the snipers who were doing the shooting
Bump!
“and without concrete reporting about the deceased shooter’s identity, Republicans were openly faulting their political opponents for the incident.”
all right, a-holes, how’s this for “concrete” reporting:
on july 8, Joe Biden told donors: “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
isn’t that EXACTLY what the wannabe assassin did?
The pictures and film of Trump rallying the crowd will likely be the enduring image of this election and perhaps his entire political career.
The corrupt MS has already started denigrating the “all sides are” baloney. I hope nobody on here adopts the “all humans have” sinned equality” role. Yes we all have. No, our political sins are not equal.
Anyone who denies Trump their vote because of the constitutional sending Roe v. Wade back to the states might as well be voting for Trump. If you want someone who will limit federal approval of infantaside, your vote needs to go to Trump
They ain’t wrong
“In the always online and deeply polarized world of 2024, though, the claims came quick, no matter the lack of information about motive.”
really? seemed to me his motive was to kill the former President ...
“The facts — particularly the Biden administration’s initial reluctance to pursue charges against his predecessor — don’t reflect the claims”
that may be, but the pursuit of a plethora of SUBSEQUENT bogus charges DO reflect the claims of massive coordinated fascist attacks against former President Trump ...
Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, when he was shot in the chest but his written speech caught the bullet and saved him.
This didn't work out the way they planned.
By an act of God, it totally blew up in their faces.
President Trump could not have had a closer brush with death and the fact that he dodged a bullet to the brain and it was still close enough to get his ear, show Divine providence at work here in a way rarely seen.
What happened in him moving just enough at precisely the exact moment he needed to was far beyond coincidence.
“It may have been jarring in the moment, but there was a reason so many Republicans thought to quickly post the photos of a blood-streaked Trump: They will prove politically potent.”
well, that and an instant concrete demonstration of Trump’s toughness, fortitude, fearlessness, and determination under literal fire that nearly killed him ...
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