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Frankly if he was killed by that shot it would massively help Republicans and secure a massive win.
Republicans could pick up another candidate (note that this was just 3 days before RNC), whomever RNC would pick the MAGA would fold, because what they can do, trump is dead and they won't vote for evil Biden who likely "ordered the assassination". Non MAGA Republicans would likely come back. There likely could even be Democrats who would vote for another candidate because they believed it was to eliminate competition after "failed Biden's debate".
The new GOP candidate (for example Nikki) unlike trump would be more likely to work for the benefit of the party. It would be a nice Republican reboot that's would not destroy the party.
That's why I believe, if there was actual conspiracy, the most likely involved group would be GOP.
The assassination (successful or not) would work against Biden and Democrats.
It's also interesting that not long before this event Nikki mentioned that the party that wins is the one that replaces their candidate with a younger one first. We know that trump would never step down by himself.
Maybe it would have meant a win for the GOP, maybe it wouldn't. There are a lot of people in the party kissing his ass because to not is near party political suicide at this point. They know that if they can get his endorsement it almost guarentees a win. Just putting "maga candidate" on their flyers/signs gives them an advantage because maga will vote maga 100% of the time.
How many different gop politicians had bad things to say about him on twitch and then once he was elected did a 180 and had nothing but good things to say?
The difference is that people like Haley, Cruz, Greene, Graham, and Gaetz don't have the same accessable idiot charisma with a career of simple braindead tv shows and 40 years of pushing their names consistently into the public discourse like trump does.
They can't just poorly string together a line of nonsense words and phrases like trump can and expect people to listen lihe they do for trump.
Your 70/80-something year old grandparents aren't going to give away their life savings willingly like they do for trump. They aren't going to hang banners with the heads of those other politicians and muscular gon-toting bodies of 80s combat action stars like they do for the wrinkly, droopy, orange, wig and diaper wearing old man trump.
He is an ideal for them. A greedy "rich" powerful no-bs get-things-done businessman (or woman) that at one time they all knew they would be if it wasn't for that one thing out of their control that held them back. And the fact that he (and they) are in the tail end of their twilight years and trump is still out there crushing it in a world where the elderly are tossed out and forgotten or a burden on their families gives them false hope that he will speak for them and give them the dignified end they think they deserve.
The world passed them by long ago and trump is that last thread back to when they were young and relevant. Cut that thread and with it goes the last bit of hope they have to be remembered when they're gone.
It's a good thing the shooter was an aspiring Empire Stormtrooper. He shot like the best of them.