{"id":1206,"date":"2024-07-16T07:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:54:57","slug":"after-assassination-attempt-on-trump-bidens-political-challenge-changes-in-an-instant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"After assassination attempt on Trump, Biden\u2019s political challenge changes in an instant"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"layout__main layout-with-rail__main\" data-editable=\"main\" data-track-zone=\"main\" data-reorderable=\"main\">\n<article class=\"article\" role=\"main\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/article\/instances\/clymec0u1000v6mqnger8bgh4@published\" data-unselectable=\"true\" data-regwall-disabled=\"false\">\n<section class=\"body tabcontent active\" data-tabcontent=\"Content\"><main class=\"article__main\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content-container\">\n<div class=\"article__content\" data-editable=\"content\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymec0u1000u6mqnbspq8mpk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">President Joe Biden was bracing for a week of political onslaught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby00083b6kcyq09ihl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">More Democratic lawmakers were expected to publicly call on him to drop out of the 2024 race, a\u00a0grueling campaign schedule would put his stamina on display and a high-stakes TV interview was sure to once again spotlight questions about his age, health and fitness to serve a second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby00093b6k5juoiq4g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">When gunshots rang out at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/us\/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-invs\/index.html\">Donald Trump political rally<\/a>\u00a0in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday evening, much of that appeared to change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-dynamic ad-slot-dynamic--1\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/ad-slot-dynamic\/instances\/sharethrough@published\" data-placement=\"{&quot;mobile&quot;:{&quot;position&quot;:5},&quot;desktop&quot;:{&quot;position&quot;:3}}\" data-unselectable=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/ad-slot\/instances\/cnn-v1@published\" data-path=\"end\/ad-slot-dynamic[0]\/items\" data-desktop-slot-id=\"ad_nat_btf_01\" data-mobile-slot-id=\"ad_nat_btf_01\" data-unselectable=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__feedback ad-feedback-link-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1207\" title=\"4577762e654c03b08ef73e0f56069c3d\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4577762e654c03b08ef73e0f56069c3d.gif\" alt=\"4577762e654c03b08ef73e0f56069c3d\" width=\"1107\" height=\"610\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-feedback-link\" data-ad-type=\"DISPLAY\" data-ad-identifier=\"ad_nat_btf_01\">\n<div class=\"ad-feedback-link__label\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000a3b6k0avm5fxj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">At least for a brief moment, politics largely came to a halt.\u00a0As bipartisan calls condemning the horrific attack on Trump poured in from all corners of the country, the Biden campaign immediately paused TV ads and political communications, and the White House would also postpone the president\u2019s trip to Monday to Texas, where he had planned to attend a fundraiser. He also addressed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/politics\/video\/biden-speech-trump-assassination-attempt-digvid\">nation from the Oval Office,<\/a>\u00a0calling for a lowering of the political temperature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000b3b6kwniv5rqg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Something else largely came to a halt: The calls from within Biden\u2019s own party for him to abandon his campaign for a second term. Until that moment, those calls had been growing by the day since his disastrous debate performance against Trump last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000c3b6ks3fka1q7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Even as the Biden campaign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/politics\/joe-biden-trump-campaign\/index.html\">is working to delicately navigate a moment<\/a>\u00a0of national\u00a0trauma and shock, some allies of the president are privately hopeful that the assassination attempt on Trump may ultimately end up quelling the Democratic dissent\u00a0as\u00a0the party recognizes the importance of standing as a united front. Biden\u00a0returns to the campaign trail this\u00a0week when he visits Nevada, a critical swing state.\u00a0The trip\u00a0will mark\u00a0his\u00a0first public test of campaigning against his predecessor in front of the backdrop of a country reeling from the shocking images of Saturday.\u00a0Before he leaves for Las Vegas, Biden will sit down with NBC\u2019s Lester Holt at the White House \u2013 an interview that now holds a difference kind of significance in the aftermath of the fatal Trump rally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-dynamic ad-slot-dynamic--1\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/ad-slot-dynamic\/instances\/outstream@published\" data-placement=\"{&quot;mobile&quot;:{&quot;position&quot;:7},&quot;desktop&quot;:{&quot;position&quot;:6}}\" data-unselectable=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000d3b6kl0kojcy6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cI think it should,\u201d one close Biden ally told CNN when asked if that may end up being a result of Saturday\u2019s attack. But, they added, \u201cit\u2019s too early to tell. The tone of the next few days, especially with the RNC convention, will have a big impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymgrely00073b6jczkdrfe8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Democratic operatives had viewed the days after Biden\u2019s press conference at the NATO summit late last week as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/politics\/biden-say-trump-shooting-bullseye\/index.html\">a critical inflection point for his campaign<\/a>\u00a0amid a slow build of calls for the president to step aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000f3b6kxl1lo9am@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">While allies acknowledged that the president\u2019s solo news conference was\u00a0far\u00a0stronger than his debate performance, concerns remained \u2013 including among donors who continued to hold back big-dollar donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000g3b6kzf8fm091@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cIt all comes down to this weekend,\u201d one strategist aware of Democratic lawmakers on the fence about abandoning the Biden effort had told CNN prior to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000h3b6kwg5p5d4j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Following the attempt on Trump\u2019s life, those discussions were paused \u2013 but not stopped entirely, these sources said, as the political establishment assessed the repercussions and the need for the president to assume a leadership role. Biden spent the first 24 hours following the Trump rally trying to reassure the nation in three separate speeches \u2013 including the rare prime time Oval Office address \u2013 and promising in between briefings from the heads of various law enforcement agencies that his administration would answer for Saturday\u2019s massive security breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000i3b6kyvm5qa75@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Before the Trump rally in Pennsylvania got underway,\u00a0Biden had spent Saturday afternoon on a tense call with a moderate group of House Democrats known as the New Democrat Coalition. One of the toughest questions came from Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, who asked Biden whether concerns about his mental acuity would affect national security, two sources told CNN. Biden was animated, per sources, as he defended his record and pointed to the work he has done to strengthen NATO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000j3b6kdoqsgggi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Lawmakers also sought reassurances from Biden over the course of the call, but those sometimes fell flat,\u00a0and sources described the president\u2019s responses as defensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000k3b6k8ifzd167@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have an answer to the question about what he\u2019s going to do to change the momentum of the campaign,\u201d Democratic Rep. Adam Smith told CNN following the call Saturday, adding that the president largely focused on his accomplishments in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000l3b6kvn2ydors@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cThe message we\u2019ve been getting from him and his team: Shut up, fall in line, everything\u2019s fine,\u201d said Smith, who has urged Biden to step aside. \u201cThat\u2019s not good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesby000m3b6k05ex24r2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">While that outreach campaign unfolded, some of the president\u2019s closest allies\u00a0were pushing\u00a0for unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000n3b6k9rd08lsl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cAll corners of the party need to be working in tandem if we are going to be successful,\u201d Rep. Jim Clyburn told Al Sharpton on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cPolitics Nation\u201d Saturday, prior to the Trump rally shooting. \u201cSo, what I want to see happen is for us to focus on the future for a little while, especially while the other side is in their convention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000o3b6kd1rf68sm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also traveled to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, to meet with Biden over the weekend \u2013 an indication of the ongoing party angst. Schumer described the meeting as \u201cgood\u201d in a statement, but a person familiar with the conversation said it was as candid and frank as one Biden held with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries two nights earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000p3b6kmhqrzs5u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Neither Schumer nor Jeffries, who both have expressed worry about damage to the Democratic ticket, implicitly announced after their respective meetings that they were fully supportive of Biden\u2019s decision to stay in the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000q3b6k4yvkr1ry@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Biden advisers had also been bracing for the Sunday shows as a likely venue for potential high-profile defections. But those expected discussions were quickly eclipsed by the response to the assassination attempt on Biden\u2019s predecessor and political opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000r3b6ksl3xozjo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">With the Biden campaign in full survival mode, advisers had hoped the president\u2019s speech in Detroit on Friday would help quell some of the concerns Democrats harbored about his candidacy, including his ability to effectively make the case against his GOP rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000s3b6kq0kcgq9o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Standing before a supportive Michigan crowd urging him not to leave the race, Biden delivered one of his most forceful rebukes of Trump of the election cycle and outlined in detail for the first time what the first 100 days of a second Biden term would entail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000t3b6ks5sjvs25@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cWe think that our voters are going to care about the issues and that is what\u2019s going to matter when they go to the ballot box,\u201d one campaign aide had said after the speech. \u201cOutside the Beltway, it feels different, it looks different and things that motivate people are different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clymeesbz000u3b6kiswfheyk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Republicans are moving forward with their national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this week, rallying around Trump as images of the defiant former president pumping his fist in the air \u2013 the right side of his head bloodied \u2013 have become some of the most iconic in modern American history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__copyright\" data-editable=\"copyright\" data-reorderable=\"copyright\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"layout__end layout-with-rail__end\">\n<div data-editable=\"end\" data-track-zone=\"end\">\n<div class=\"dynamic\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/dynamic\/instances\/new-content-recs-dynamic-v1@published\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/dynamic-logic\/instances\/content-recs-related-edition-v1@published\">\n<div class=\"content-recs\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/content-recs\/instances\/content-recs-related-edition@published\" data-editable=\"settings\" data-recs-model=\"related\" data-title=\"Up next\" data-number-of-items=\"5\" data-content-types=\"article\" data-sections=\"\" data-layout=\"container_list-headlines-with-read-times\">\n<div class=\"container container_list-headlines-with-read-times  \" data-uri=\"\/_components\/container\/instances\/content-recs\" data-selective-publishing=\"true\" data-collapsed-text=\"Up next\">\n<div class=\"container__ads container_list-headlines-with-read-times__ads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden was bracing for a week of political onslaught. 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