At the moment the photo was taken, Trump supporter Corey Comperatore lay dead from a gunshot wound to the head just feet from where the former President was standing. Comperatore, a firefighter, had been killed minutes earlier while shielding his wife and daughter with his own body. Two other Trump supporters lay wounded nearby.
Just 160 yards away on the roof of a building with a direct line of sight to where Trump had been speaking, the 20 year old assassin who had created the mayhem with his gunfire lay dead from bullet wounds fired by a Secret Service counter sniper team.
While raising his fist, Trump mouthed the word “fight” several times. Much of the crowd, seeing that Trump was safe, began chanting “USA, USA, USA…”.
Within 24 hours, President Biden, who has consistently called Donald Trump and the MAGA movement THE threat to American democracy while running ads falsely saying that Trump “hates” black Americans and wants to be a “dictator” if elected appeared in an Oval Office address and called on everyone to lower the political temperature.
Within 48 hours, a calm and collected Donald Trump triumphantly strode into a packed arena at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the jubilant cheers of a raucous crowd which had officially nominated him as the Republican candidate for President earlier in the day.
Even in an American nation becoming used to whipsaw twists and tumultuous turns, it was a shocking, frightening and ultimately momentous 2 days. This was the first presidential level assassination attempt to reach the actual firing stage since March of 1981 when John Hinckley shot and seriously wounded President Ronald Reagan as he was exiting the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Donald Trump emerges politically stronger and more beloved by his MAGA movement and his Republican Party. Most likely, he will emerge a more respected and a more sympathetic figure to the broader American populous. Before this deadly serious attempt on his life and his own resilient reaction, Trump was likely going to win this election. Now, he is the crystal clear favorite to be the next president of the United States.
Joe Biden emerges MORE likely to remain the Democrat nominee for President but LESS likely to actually win the election in November. His Oval Office address was another bumbling example of his diminished faculties as he repeatedly called the “ballot box” the (and I kid you not) the “battle box.”
Yet another American institution has taken a major hit with the public as the Secret Service failed to stop an amateurish 20 year old loner with a rifle from crawling onto a roof with an unobstructed line of fire directly to the President from only 160 yards. It does not help that the current head of the Secret Service, appointed by President Biden, has stated in interviews that one of her top goals is bringing “diversity” to the Secret Service. At this point, most Americans would prefer that the organization’s leadership prioritize actually doing their job.
Republicans are fully unified behind Donald Trump. This is Trump’s party to a degree not seen for one leader since Ronald Reagan owned the Republican Party in the mid 1980s. They are determined to win and optimistic about their chances. You can feel the energy and excitement here in Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention.
Democrats are badly divided as most party and legacy media elites want to force Biden off the ticket. However, average Democrats are less likely to support abandoning Biden. They are also now gloomy about their chances for victory and sense how the ground has shifted against them even further.
The battle-ground state map is now much larger - and all in favor of Trump and the Republicans. Virginia, which has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, is now in play along with New Mexico and even Minnesota which no Republican presidential candidate has carried since Nixon’s landslide in 1972. No traditional Republican states are in play for Biden and the Democrats.
At this point, a Trump win will almost certainly mean that Republicans capture the Senate (currently tied 50-50) and add to their razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives.
The author, Tim Phillips, is a Republican strategist and consultant with long experience at the presidential, senatorial, and congressional levels. He has appeared regularly in major media publications and across all the major television networks. His current company is Hyperfocal. From 2006 through 2021, he was President of Americans for Prosperity. He is actually on the board of Renaissance Evolution.
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