OPINION: Trump isn't the real threat to democracy. Would-be assassins after him are.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : If we truly value democracy, we must want Trump to be safe for the sake of the democratic process.
49% : How did the gunman know Trump would be on the golf course Sunday afternoon?
49% : How was a person with a rifle and scope able to get within a few hundred yards of Trump?
46% : Despite the fact he's a billionaire, Trump promotes himself as a leader to the disenfranchised and voiceless, and one who stands up against an establishment that looks down on him and the millions of Americans who support him.
30% : The 20-year-old gunman in that incident was able to fire at least six shots, grazing Trump on his ear, killing a person in the audience and wounding two others.
29% : The Associated Press reported Monday that Routh wrote last year, in a self-published book, that Iran was "free to assassinate Trump.
24% : But neither attempt has derailed Trump, who remains, according to polls, locked in a tight race with Vice President Kamala Harris, and the failed attempt on Sunday will likely galvanize a Republican base that feels disenfranchised but remains zealous.
24% : Assassination attempt raises security questionsOn July 13, Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
23% : On Sunday, Ryan Routh, 58, was arrested in an apparent attempt to kill Trump while the former president played golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
23% : We know that Iran has recently plotted against Trump.
21% : Much of the legacy news media and the Democratic Party loathe Trump.
16% : His X account is now suspended, but in a June 2020 post, he slammed Trump: "While you were my choice in 2016, I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving.
4% : News media journalists seem to blame TrumpIt didn't take long for legacy news media to blame Trump for his own assassination attempt.

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