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I think it’s time to actually turn the page on the last decade of the policies of division and extremism that the former president has embraced,
I have to tell you, political violence of any kind is unacceptable, and I strongly condemn it. And like all Americans, I’m grateful that he is OK, but we all have to stand up and say enough of this kind of approach. We have to have civil dialogue and discourse."
During the radio interview, Harris again condemned the attempt on Trump's life, telling the host And more than now, we don’t want division,
I honestly, I think people are exhausted by the hate and division and the attempt to tear us apart from each other,
All of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air, and I guess probably four or five, and it sounded like bullets,
he told an audio platform on social media site X late Monday Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me,
Women are bleeding out in parking lots, turned away from emergency rooms,
Harris said in a statement following the release of a report by ProPublica, which deemed Thurman's the first abortion-related death officially deemed "preventable." We would have thought that after a former president was actually hit by a bullet, grazed by a bullet in July, that there would have been more of a sustained reaction, maybe a soul-searching about where our politics is. But in fact, the campaign and the politics of this country pretty much went back to where they were pretty quickly,
he says in the video post In some sense, Trump is the through line in this new era of political violence,
Even as he complained that the Democrats had made him a target by calling him a threat to democracy, he repeated his own assertion that 'these are people that want to destroy our country' and called them ‘the enemy from within’ — certainly language no less provocative than that used about him,
Baker said of Trump's attacks on Harris and Biden I think what it says is that political violence may not be accepted, but it may increasingly become expected,
This idea that Trump has at times inspired political violence through his rhetoric. We know that,
Donald Trump has long been seen as an instigator of political violence,
chief White House correspondent Peter Baker says in a video posted by The Times on Tuesday If you had to boil it down, the main thrust of Harris's campaign over the past month has been to convince voters she can be presidential, and this is another opportunity to do just that,
one strategist familiar with Harris's campaign strategy claimed I know it’s popular on a lot of corners of the Left to say that we have a both-sides problem, and I’m not going to say we’re always perfect. I’m not going to say that conservatives always get things exactly right. But you know, the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that we have — no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months,
Whether we want to admit it or not, turnout was already going to be a bigger issue for Vice President Harris than Trump, and she's doing everything she needs to energize any remaining holdouts,
a second Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner I don't think this second shooter will give Trump a significant advantage,
Political violence is unacceptable. Full stop,
This means that Congress has a responsibility to ensure the Secret Service and all law enforcement have the resources they need to do their jobs. So as we continue the appropriations process, if the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are prepared to provide it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement,
[T ... T]he letter goes on to say that, nevertheless, they do need more funding in certain areas. So, I'm sure the subcommittee's going to look closely at that,
Collins said, referring to the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees Homeland Security matters