Donald Trump shot by an assassin at campaign rally

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Social media videos show the shooter taking aim at the president and firing from a building a few hundred metres away from where Trump was delivering his speech.
40% : Writing in his Truth Social platform, Trump said: "I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin....... much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening." The 20-year-old suspect who has been named by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot dead by a US Secret Service sniper.
32% : Social media videos show Trump going down as the bullet pierced through his right ear with blood streaming down his cheek.
32% : As Trump got up and was being whisked away by security agents, he could be seen shouting with clenched fists, calling on his supporters to fight, fight, fight!
32% : Will this lead to increased sympathy vote for Trump, or will voters in November reject any attempt by politicians to use this shooting for electoral advantage?
28% : The man suspected of shooting Trump has been named by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks.
14% : This assassination attempt comes just three years after the January 6 2021 attempt by Trump supporters to violently and unconstitutionally overturn the country's elections result, for which many in America are holding Trump accountable for incitement.

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