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As the dust settles following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a key question is how the failed bid may impact the upcoming White House election.

The United States has a bloody history of political assassinations, with four presidents assassinated while in office. History also shows that such attempts can have other effects at the ballot box.

Like Trump, Theodore Roosevelt was a former president who was looking to go back to the White House when he was shot on the crusade trail in Milwaukee in 1912. Folded papers and a steel glasses case in his pocket absorbed some of the fire. have an effect on of the shot, and he delivered his speech as planned – with the bullet lodged in the chest. Roosevelt, representing his own Bull Moose Party, told his audience, “I do not know if you perceive that I’ve just been shot. ” But it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!

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