Assassination Attempt Helped Trump Win the Election
Destiny, fate, divine intervention are cited
Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman said on CNN that Donald Trump’s shooting in Butler, PA and the support of Elon Musk were the major factors in the former president winning his state.
PA voters made pilgrimages to the spot where they believe a miracle occurred with Trump.
Several other analysts also believe the shooting was critical in changing and softening Trump’s image with voters.
“An assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania nearly altered the course of history. Instead, it might have won him the election.” wrote Alex Winston in The Jerusalem Post. “Destiny. It is a word often used to describe an inevitable chain of events shaping the future. For President-elect Donald Trump, destiny seemed to intertwine fate, resilience, and political momentum in a way that defied expectations and galvanized his supporters.” Click.
Trump’s instinctive reaction to the shooting, that produced an iconic photograph, and the courage he showed afterwards, may have persuaded non-ideological swing voters that “he’s willing to take a bullet for America, for all of us,” as several said in exit-poll interviews.
No matter that Trump’s increasingly violent rhetoric over eight years contributed to inflaming political passions.
And forget that nearly all potential presidential nominees in a country so huge, full of firearms and violent people recognize that they make themselves physical targets. If they weren’t willing to take risks, face or overcome their fears, they wouldn’t run. This goes for leaders “the people” both love and despise going back to the 1960s: John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy; Martin Luther King; and every president since JFK was assassinated in 1963.
Ronald Reagan’s gracious reaction to and recovery from an assassin’s bullet in 1981 probably did help him win public support. His popular approval soared after the assassination attempt.
Attributing recent events to destiny and divine intervention is a matter of extreme subjectivity, of course, that will be colored by what comes next. If Trump is successful in his second term, divine attribution will continue. If he’s unsuccessful, and economic fortunes decline, will Trump voters attribute the reason to their own naivete, short-sightedness, and sinfulness in supporting a convicted felon?
Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address suggested the extreme pain of the civil war was divine retribution for the sin of slavery. It was an attempt to make meaning out of mass suffering.
PS — I’m not going to entertain left-wing conspiracies that the Trump assassination attempt was staged, as I think they have been thoroughly debunked. Click. I don’t entertain left-wing conspiracies any more than I entertain right-wing conspiracy theories. Click for more on critical thinking through conspiracy theories.
Putting aside metaphysical explanations:
There were five reasons Trump won Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/5-numbers-that-help-explain-why-donald-trump-won-michigan/ar-AA1tKNXI?ocid=BingNewsVerp
45 percent of voters said their family's financial situation was worse than four years ago. Kamala Harris beat Trump by just 29 percent in the Democratic stronghold of Wayne County, compared to the 38 percent Joe Biden beat Trump by in 2020. Third party candidate Jill Stein received 18 percent of the vote in Deerborn, which has a large Muslim population. This was clearly a protest vote against the Biden administration's alliance with Israel.
Trump won 70% of the vote or more in 15 Michigan counties, compared to eight counties in 2020. Harris one nine counties compared to the eight counties Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
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