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(NEXSTAR) — On Saturday evening, erstwhile President Donald Trump was rushed disconnected the stage of a run rally aft evident gunshots rang retired and helium appeared to beryllium injured. While the Trump run said Trump is "fine," the incidental sent large shockwaves done the governmental world.
"An incidental occurred the evening of July 13 astatine a Trump rally successful Pennsylvania, the U.S. Secret Service said successful a connection connected Saturday. "The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the erstwhile President is safe. This is present an progressive Secret Service probe and further accusation volition beryllium released erstwhile available."
Unfortunately, the anticipation of a statesmanlike campaigner being assassinated oregon harmed isn't caller to campaigns. In 1912, erstwhile President Teddy Roosevelt was shot during a run code successful Milwaukee — though the slug lodged successful Roosevelt's chest, the erstwhile president instantly removed a bloody 50-page code helium had tucked wherever the slug entered, which helium credited with his survival. He finished his code with a slug wrong him.
A overmuch much superior incidental happened connected June 6, 1968, erstwhile Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy was shot respective times successful Los Angeles. Kennedy's gunman was captured, and Kennedy was pronounced dormant the adjacent day.
As acold arsenic presidents go, each modern president has survived imaginable assassination attempts and/or planned incidents, including Trump. In 2017, the Secret Service thwarted a reported program by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) affiliate to onslaught Trump during the 2017 ASEAN Summits successful the Philippines.
While determination aren't rules governing what happens if and erstwhile a statesmanlike campaigner is assassinated, determination is wide guidance astir what happens if a campaigner dies. The Brookings Institution explains that it depends connected erstwhile a campaigner dies oregon is incapable to enactment successful their elections.
If primaries person not been held yet, a peculiar enactment mightiness request to propulsion backmost the events to let a caller excavation of candidates to measurement into the arena. If a normal has already selected a campaigner who ends up being incapable to run, that peculiar enactment would past request to prime idiosyncratic caller — and some the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee person antithetic ways of going forward.
On Saturday, Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldfinger said 1 rally attendee was killed and the suspected gunman was besides dead, according to AP.
