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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
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"The shooting guarantees a Trump victory" is way overstated.
The true hogs in the Trump base were always going to support him, and still will. Maybe this wins a few "Never Trump" Republicans over, but I don't think that's a sizeable amount of voters. No Democrats are going to vote Trump after this either.
Who is this supposed to win over? They'd have to be invested in bipartisanship and national unity and institutions and all that but simultaneously down to vote for a candidate whose entire political career is pissing on it. And they'd have to be disinterested enough to not have already picked a side, but interested enough remember this 100+ days from now and decide to vote, too. We're talking 5 people.
it's mostly a "we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas" on the Democrat's part.