Bloodied, defiant Trump with raised fist: An enduring image that likely will fuel his campaign

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump is already leading in national polls and in key battleground states.
48% : Trump was still en route to the hospital when supporters began turning images of the former president emerging from the shooting into heroic online memes, extensions of the strongman persona that he began cultivating during his television career.
44% : But Democrats were not in a position to fight back immediately, given the public sympathy Trump is generating.
31% : Trump, despite multiple indictments, an eventual conviction, two impeachments and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, ran away with his party's nominating contest.
30% : Gergen, who served four presidents in both parties for decades, believes sympathy for Trump could sway undecided voters and that "a significant number will go further -- seeing their president nearly murdered."
26% : The campaign announced within hours of Saturday's assassination attempt -- which wounded Trump's ear and left the shooter and one other person dead -- that Trump would be in attendance to accept the nomination.
13% : "The split-screen effect is of one man tripping on public stages versus another man of approximately the same age who's defiant in the face of a shooting," said Steve Schmidt, a former top political aide to the late Republican Sen. John McCain who has campaigned hard against Trump.
11% : They also began blaming Biden and other Democrats who warned that Trump is a danger to democracy, even when the shooter's identity and motives were unknown.
10% : Trump has long encouraged violence at his rallies and mocked Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), when he was the victim of a political attack.

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