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Trump bloodied but emboldened after attack
But it was President Biden, faltering on stage and in the polls, who may have sustained the more serious wound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES: A woman wearing a Trump t-shirt walks past a RIP poster of Thomas Matthew Crooks calling him ‘An American Hero’

“I COULD stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” former US president Donald Trump famously boasted at a January 2016 campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Instead, at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, somebody shot him. The failed assassination attempt will likely further inflame Trump’s base and boost the Republican presidential candidate’s popularity. 

What it won’t do is prompt any calls from the right for gun control in a country where daily gun violence is so routine it barely makes headlines.

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