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MPR News with Angela Davis
Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer
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Assassination attempt on former President Trump and the state of American politics

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pa.
Evan Vucci | AP

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MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests discussed the assassination attempt on former President Trump at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

What are the implications for this week’s Republican National Committee Convention and the 2024 presidential campaign?

Guests:

  • Larry Jacobs is a political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. He is also the author of “Democracy Under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History.” 

  • Kathryn Pearson is an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

    Three people sitting in a broadcast studio
    MPR News host Angela Davis (left) talks with Larry Jacobs (center), political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, and Kathryn Pearson (right), associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, in an MPR News studio in St. Paul on Monday.
    Nikhil Kumaran | MPR News

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