Calls to tone down political rhetoric after Trump assassination attempt don’t take hold
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This week’s Republican National Convention is in the books. It got off to an emotional start for the party with the appearance of Donald Trump on Monday after surviving an assassination attempt.
That deadly shooting killed a firefighter who took a bullet to protect his family. Two more people were seriously injured. It brought immediate calls to take the political rhetoric down a notch. Those calls wound up being immediately ignored.
J.D. Vance started by blaming the shooting on Democrats two days before being announced as Donald Trump’s running mate. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin addressed the RNC on national television by calling the Democratic Party a clear and present danger.
Democrats have been campaigning on the argument that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, and David Frum, who is a conservative but ardent never Trumper, points to Donald Trump’s own behavior where he ridiculed the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband and made fun of the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Host Jim Niedelman brings back Kay Pence and Drue Mielke.
“I am concerned it could get more out of hand,” Pence said. “A lot of people started pushing blame before they had any idea who caused it or why.”
“We need to focus on issues and facts, not personalities,” Mielke said. “We need to keep it, [as] people say, high end, classy.”
To hear more from the panelists, click on the video.
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