New cases of political violence roil U.S. ahead of contentious...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Eleven days later, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Alan Vandersloot, a 74-year-old local borough councilman, stood with a Harris sign among about a dozen of her supporters at a rally in York, a city of nearly 45,000 in a county that broadly backed Trump in 2020.
36% : Kemppainen, 22 and unemployed, went on a vandalism spree eight days later in his town of Hancock, population 4,500, which mostly backed Trump in the 2020 election.
34% : "DOING MY PART"The highest-profile case of recent political violence was the first assassination attempt on Trump at a July 13 campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
34% : He has decided to vote for Trump, he added.
31% : Some of the violence has been reported widely, most notably two assassination attempts on Trump, a Republican.
25% : "Trump himself has declined to rule out the possibility of violence if he loses in November.
24% : His social media posts, from an account last active in 2020, supported Trump and criticized Democrats.
22% : On Sept. 15, a second assassination attempt on Trump refocused attention on the risk of political violence in this year´s election.
19% : Trump in particular often uses incendiary rhetoric, threatening to put his political enemies on trial and to deploy the military against the "radical left", calling them "the enemy within.
4% : The Trump campaign, when asked about the steady rise of political violence and the recent attacks against Harris and Trump supporters, provided a statement attacking Harris on immigration and criminal justice reform.

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