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Democrats fret about the political fallout from the Trump rally shooting
NBC News | Comcast ^ | July 14, 2024 | By Jonathan Allen, Natasha Korecki, Alex Tabet and Ali Vitali

Posted on 07/14/2024 3:18:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

MILWAUKEE — In the hours after a would-be assassin fired a bullet through former President Donald Trump’s ear, Panfilo DiCenzo, a 40-year-old Democratic voter from Pittsburgh, drew a simple conclusion about the political effect of the attack: “It definitely is good for Trump.”

At a time when President Joe Biden has been struggling to shore up support with fellow Democrats following a miserable June debate performance and shaky cleanup effort, some professional Democratic political operatives said Saturday’s shooting will end up sealing the incumbent’s electoral fate.

“We’re so beyond f---ed,” one longtime Democratic insider said, noting that the image of Trump thrusting his fist in the air, with blood dramatically smeared across his face, will be indelible.

“The presidential contest ended last night,” said a veteran Democratic consultant.

“Now it’s time to focus on keeping the Senate and trying to pick up the House,” he said. “The only positive thing to come out of last night for Democrats is we are no longer talking about Joe Biden’s age today.”

One Democratic strategist who has worked on multiple presidential campaigns and on Capitol Hill said that the physical targeting of Trump robs Biden of his main argument against the former president. Biden, the strategist pointed out, has tried to convince voters that Trump is so extreme that he presents a threat to democracy.

“That message is dead,” the strategist said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; butlertrumprally; democrats; demonicrats; election2024; journalism; press; trump; trumprally
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Warning .
This will be Senile Diaper wearing Joes Great Unifying speech .
Just watch .
All the Lefty Media New Big Push Disney Abc Commiecast Nbc MsDnc CBS Cnn .
Its already been set up in a media panic .
Joe has Arisen as a unifer .

Watch and get prepared to vomit .

21 posted on 07/14/2024 3:35:49 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump is now likely well beyond the fraud margin in PA, MI, WI, GA, and AZ. And can likely pick up NH, NJ, NV, MN, all of ME, and maybe even OR.


22 posted on 07/14/2024 3:36:30 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A campaign staffer for Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is no longer employed in his office after expressing disappointment on social media that the shooter missed.

“I was made aware of a post made by a staff member and she is no longer in my employment,” Thompson said.

The post, which has since been deleted but has spread on X, said, “I don’t condone violence but get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time.”

Thompson is the lead Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and he chaired the special House committee that investigated Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

23 posted on 07/14/2024 3:38:01 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Evil pricks are always bitchin’.


24 posted on 07/14/2024 3:38:51 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just Give Me Truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After a brief pause in the Biden messaging on Monday...they just announced they will resume their campaign messages on Tuesday.


25 posted on 07/14/2024 3:38:52 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: janetjanet998
They will just have to run on Biden’s vigor and intellectual skills then

Best laugh I've had in days!
26 posted on 07/14/2024 3:40:51 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden Halts ‘Trump Is Hitler’ Ads After Assassination Attempt
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after-assassination-attempt


27 posted on 07/14/2024 3:43:21 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: changeitback440

they have much, much more to worry about now..... game on

They shot first, dueling with a now focused opposition. We shall not forget.


28 posted on 07/14/2024 3:44:23 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That and their rape of the country.


29 posted on 07/14/2024 3:45:02 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They will have trouble eating their vile words.

Nancy Pelosi—”Pelosi Before Shooting: “Trump Must Be Stopped. He Cannot Be President.”

A magazine made a picture of Trump morphed into Hitler. Waters said Trump was a threat.
All of them parroted “existential threat” as a reason to “stop” Trump.

Biden in Michigan: Biden said another four years of Trump would be “deadly serious.”


30 posted on 07/14/2024 3:45:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So they tried cancelling, smearing, cheating, impeachments, false charges, jail threats, dog whistles, and the next step in this horrible timeline was this incident. They deserve to lose the election.


31 posted on 07/14/2024 3:47:54 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Jeff Chandler

The Dems fret because negative attack ads, the most effective ads, will not be effective and backfire.


32 posted on 07/14/2024 3:48:03 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: Brandonmark
they just announced they will resume their campaign messages on Tuesday.

What messages? That Trump is an existential threat to democracy who will destroy America and install himself as dictator for life?

After they all spent the weekend wishing him well on Twitter?

Quite a pickle they're in!

33 posted on 07/14/2024 3:48:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: janetjanet998

I thought Bye den was suspending his ads because he was going to bow out of the race….


34 posted on 07/14/2024 3:49:47 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: Drew68
Maybe they can find some comfort in knowing that it solves their Harris problem. Harris in 2028 is going to do about as Pence did in 2024.

Knowing the Democrats, though, they might be accepting of a Trump victory now, but you can be sure they will oppose every move he makes in his new administration and will probably keep making up false scandals and criminal charges against his staff.

35 posted on 07/14/2024 3:52:41 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: janetjanet998

The message was all projection. No wonder they are dropping, they know they cant win.


36 posted on 07/14/2024 3:53:51 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

37 posted on 07/14/2024 3:55:19 PM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: ncalburt

Will he be flanked in dark devil red and the military in his unifying speech, like the one in 2022?


38 posted on 07/14/2024 3:56:34 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: RummyChick
from 4chan...so likely not true

39 posted on 07/14/2024 3:57:12 PM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So does their friendly neighborhood media. That’s why they are thrashing about claiming it was staged and didn’t happen, blaming Trump and his supporters, promoting gun control, hiding and minimizing details, omitting Democrat lunacy, and changing the subject entirely. They want a smorgasbord for their fiends and fools.


40 posted on 07/14/2024 3:57:23 PM PDT by Luke21
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