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It had been little than 48 hours since the attempted assassination effort against erstwhile President Donald Trump, and for 4 Wisconsin voters, it was yet different motion of however divided the federation has become.
Valori Schmidt, a Republican surviving successful Milwaukee, described the shooting astatine the erstwhile president's Pennsylvania rally arsenic a "wake-up call."
"Unfortunately, it wasn't needfully a astonishment due to the fact that the clime of hatred has escalated to specified a precocious level," Schmidt said. "The aftermath up telephone is we indispensable instrumentality the somesthesia down. We indispensable go much civil, and we indispensable commencement being factual and not not sanction calling and conscionable saying atrocious things astir 1 another."
Next to her, Gary Berns, a chap Milwaukeean who votes Democratic, replied: "I can't disagree with that."
Berns and Schmidt, joined by different section residents Julie Buckholt and Charlene Abughrin, sat down with ABC News astatine Miss Katie's Diner conscionable arsenic the Republican National Convention was kicking disconnected successful their hometown.
"As acold arsenic the loudness and the choler calling, I mean helium brings that connected himself," Berns said of Trump. Schmidt aboriginal countered that Trump, "has been vilified arsenic a Hitler, arsenic an anti-American, arsenic an extremist ... it's been nonstop from each aspects."
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