I've been thinking about how what happened yesterday could be not as politically disastrous for the Democratic party. 

The only thing I could come up with is if it were somehow exposed that the shooter was motivated by the idea that Trump raped women and specifically that he went to Epstein's Island and raped a 13 year old girl. 

That's basically the only thing that might save the Democratic party at this point
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It's not as set in stone as people are acting. Yeah Trump took a cool picture yesterday but he's still the exact candidate he was yesterday morning and we have gone through a presidency with him. I don't think voters are moving much in this election regardless.
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I hope you're right. 

I just think most people don't follow politics very closely. 

he had more than a cool picture yesterday.

Bullets were shot at his head. A bullet grazed his ear. (An inch different and his brains get blown out) 

He responds to almost being assassinated by getting up throwing his fist in the air and yelling at his audience to fight. 

After he does this his audience, some of whom are severely injured and one of whom will eventually die, stand up that start cheering and clapping for him and chanting USA. 

It's so ridiculous and unrealistic. If I saw it in a movie I would roll my eyes. But it happened in real life and was caught on live TV. 

Nobody responds to almost dying like that. 
Nobody responds to almost being assassinated like that. 

Trump looked so strong and so fearless. It's horrible because I genuinely believe he has fascist tendencies and he's also a horrible person who I believe raped a 13 year old girl on Epstein's Island. 

And this monster gets to have the greatest political moment I've ever seen. 

People vote for the stupidest reasons. They're 100% are a lot of men who are going to vote for the guy they think looks brave and fearless in the face of death
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I mean no one who is having that response was voting for Biden yesterday
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A ton of people I'm talking about would not have voted at all. 

I think in most elections somewhere around 50% of eligible voters vote. 

I know a ton of normie centrist that tell me they don't vote because they hate both parties. 

Maybe they're lying, but I see the statistic all the time that a lot of the eligible voters in the country don't even vote.

I'm scared that for a lot of men that never bother voting because they never feel like their rights are on the line will be convinced to vote for somebody that looks so fearless and powerful in the face of an assassination attempt


Edit:  additionally it's going to be hard to criticize Trump going forward because the mainstream media is going to talk about how you're inciting violence against him. 

Eg. Comparing him to Hitler or other fascists or calling him a Nazi or calling him a threat to democracy, etc.  they are going to say that rhetoric like this led to Trump supporters being murdered and Donald Trump almost getting his head blown off. 

There's the additional problem that the attack on him being the greatest threat to democracy while fully justified, is going to be hard to sell to low information voters. 

Eg. "you mean to tell me the guy that almost got assassinated and is leading in the polls is the threat to democracy, what about the people that are trying to assassinate him?"


It's so unbelievably cooked. I've seen some reporting of DNC senior Congress people admit privately that they are preparing themselves for Trump's second term.
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I understand your fears and concerns but all I’m saying is this isn’t as set in stone as you believe. What also happened at that point is a lot of people saw what you’re seeing and are threatened by it. Things like that do tend to cut both ways. It’s a boost for him, don’t get it twisted but he is still the same candidate with all of the same problems. If I know our boy Trump he has plenty of time to talk those you’re concerned about out of voting for him.
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