I guess it made him look stronger or cooler or something. He'll probably also use this to say that Democrats are trying to kill him, insinuating that they don't mind killing people to achieve their goals.

It does seem weird that a felonious rapist would get a boost from not dying. Even more baffling that he’s likely a pedo.

But lying and spinning by a corrupt machine can go along way in a country full of ignorant assholes.

American here, I haven't heard one peep about Trump getting more support because of this outside of Lemmy.

Whether or not the Trump campaign can spin this in their favor depends entirely on the motive of the assassin. If they were just some nutjob, there really isn't much they can do.

If, on the other hand, the assassination attempt was politically motivated, there are two ways I can see this whole thing being spun:

1. "The other side knows I'll win and the only way to stop me is to kill me. If you don't like them, vote for me because I scare them and they hate me."

2. "The other side is so evil and vile they would stoop to try to kill me rather than have a fair election".

In the event that the assassin wasn't some flavor of crazy, spin number one is more likely than spin number two, but they're hardly mutually exclusive.

It's not a purely American phenomena. It paints a candidate in a human light, as they "survived" a very public "tragedy", yet are still strongly pursuing what they think is right.

It's a humanizing event.

This is not a pro trump comment.

Edit but this is certainly not a pro violence comment either

I'm in the US but I don't necessarily see any proof of this. I'm not sure where this narrative is coming from, it's very strange.

Depending on how the event is spun (story-wise), an attempt like this could make the other candidate's party seem unhinged enough that one of their members would do (and apparently fail badly at) this. This, making the target, and their party by association, seem more noble than thay may be.

To a lot of people, whether the shooting is or isn't affiliated doesn't really get questioned no matter what they hear, as what party would hurt itself? They'll immediately think there is some conspiracy (the human psychology loves these rabbit holes) to make it seem like any favoring affiliation to the target's political side is staged by the other.

Voting against the people who got their base that riled up

I think the only thing that will come of this is a number of Trump supporters that might have forgotten to vote will be sure to vote now.

It’d be a lot cooler if he did

The voting booth that doesn't determine the president by popular vote?

Only one side keeps bringing all the violence

The RNC is this week, so I hope that still holds true.

Hope so. Unfortunately, this makes him look strong, in a time, when Biden looks weak. Maybe Biden could punch a reporter at the next presser to steal his thunder. Maybe Peter Doocey - he looks punchable.