Republicans Gather in Milwaukee after the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

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From the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WI, Paul Gigot, Kyle Peterson and Kim Strassel discuss the state of the GOP after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life now that the former President is officially the nominee. Plus, Joe Biden calls for unity during an address to the nation, but will any of the messaging from the Democrats change when talking about Donald Trump? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.2	The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania has shocked
0:30.0	the country and also made the country relieved that nothing more serious happened to Donald Trump.
0:37.0	We can imagine the cataclysm of anger and retribution had he been seriously wounded, but it's bad enough that a shooter was allowed
0:46.4	to get us so close to be able to imperil the life of the former president and it has shaken up the presidential race.
0:54.1	How will this affect Donald Trump himself psychologically in terms of his
0:58.9	presidential ambitions? What about president Biden's response and how he will approach the campaign?
1:05.0	What about the psychology of the United States and the public as it deals now with a presidential election?
1:12.0	Welcome, I'm Paul Geego with the Potomac Watch podcast here, the W.S.J.
1:16.2	opinion pages.
1:17.2	We're taping from Milwaukee at the Republican Convention and I'm here with Kyle Peterson and Kim Strasso welcome to you both.
1:24.8	So the near miss for a Donald Trump, Kim seems to have had something of a jolt to
1:30.4	Donald Trump who's now talking about unity, saying he has torn up his planned speech for Thursday and is rewriting it, wants a different tone, and certainly his early comments after the shooting on truth social have been
1:45.1	models of gratitude and restraint. What do you think?
1:48.8	I think this is both wise and also politically smart too, mostly wise for the nation.
1:55.9	This was a very volatile situation in that once everyone absorbed this shock, I think that there
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