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The Grave Politics of the Trump Assassination Attempt

A pressing conversation about the shooting of Donald Trump, the security breach, Biden’s phone call, and what to expect at the Republican convention.

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McGraw got ahold of a memo that Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita sent out to their campaign staff after the assassination attempt—they’re horrified by all of this, but they’re going to work on trying to beef up security to keep campaign staffers safe. Photo: Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
July 15, 2024

It’s been a little more than 24 hours since Donald Trump survived a horrific assassination attempt by a gunman at a rally outside Pittsburgh. For an urgent and inside look at the response from Trumpworld, I called up Meridith McGraw, a national political correspondent at Politico, with whom I worked for nearly three years at ABC News. Meridith has been covering Trump for nearly a decade, and she’s always been my go-to gut check for how the campaign is absorbing the latest shock to the system.