The assassination attempt on the Republican candidate for the presidency of the USA Donald Trump was a blow for the whole country. This opinion was expressed to TASS by a former high-ranking representative of the US administration, who also worked in a responsible position in the White House, in response to a request to comment on the shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
„All of America got a bullet,” said a retired Republican executive who previously held senior positions in several federal government agencies. He is currently part of the leadership of one of the "think tanks" in Washington.
Meanwhile, American publicist and local journalism veteran John Gizzi, who has covered the White House for several decades and now works for the Newsmax portal, which includes a TV channel and a digital platform, focused on the fact that in the history of the United States already there have been three assassination attempts on presidential candidates. “This is the fourth time in history that an assassination attempt has been made on a presidential candidate. It happened to Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, to Robert Kennedy Sr. in 1968 and to George Wallace in 1972,”, Gizzi noted.
The next election will be held in the US on November 5. The current head of the US administration, Democrat Joe Biden, and Republican Donald Trump have already secured formal nominations as presidential candidates from their respective parties. Their nominations were expected to be formally endorsed at the Republican (July 15-18) and Democratic (August 19-22) national conventions. However, after Biden's disastrous performance in the pre-election televised debate with Trump on June 27, in the United States and among his fellow Democrats, calls for the president to abandon further attempts to retain the highest state post There are signs that Democrats are frantically searching for a candidate to replace Biden. As NBC reported on July 11, several of Biden's closest advisers are confident that he has completely lost his re-election chances.
The US Republican National Committee has stressed that its convention in Milwaukee, due to open on Monday, will not be canceled or postponed. Trump will attend the congress, the committee specified.