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Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Penn., said she is “stunned” and “shocked” in response to the “sobering” apparent assassination attempt on Trump yesterday.
“A second attempt in just nine weeks during this heated political season, I just condemn any political violence,” Dean, a member of the bipartisan task force investigating the first assassination attempt on Trump in July, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Dean also said she thinks major party candidates should have presidential-level security, noting that Biden called for that in response to the first assassination attempt on Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Dean also urged the public to tamp down the “heated rhetoric” that she believes incited the apparent assassination attempts.
“The threat level is so great in this country, and that is what this exposes,” she said. “We are charged, all of us, with curtailing the heated rhetoric that might lead someone to think that they should take into their own hands the taking out of a political candidate.”
Dean also noted that there was a unanimous vote in House to set up the bipartisan task force in the aftermath of the first assassination attempt on Trump, with every House member coming together to condemn political violence against lawmakers, candidates and voters.
“Every single member who was there, Democrats and Republicans, voted to set up this task force to get at the truth, to say there is no place for political violence, to make sure the resources are in place to protect our electeds, our candidates, as well as the people who just want to be civically engaged and go to a rally, but also to make sure at some point we are in faith in institutions, so we are united in that front,” she said. “And what we need from the Secret Service is more transparent truth about what happened, what works, what doesn’t, what resources are missing.”