Many are convinced Trump will now win the American election (Image: Getty) It is an image that will become an icon of global history. With his face bloodied but defiant, Donald Trump raises a clenched fist to the crowd as he stands in front of the American flag, while Secret Service agents try to move him off the platform where he has just survived an attempted assassination. The extraordinary scene, which took place at a rally in rural Pennsylvania, may turn out to be the defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Already enjoying a lead over the increasingly decrepit Joe Biden , Trump could see further swathes of the electorate rally to his side out of admiration for his bravery and disgust for his opponents’ relentless demonisation of his candidacy. Yet Trump’s survival was nothing short of miraculous. If there had been only an inch difference in the trajectory of the bullet, Trump would almost certainly have been killed.
On such tiny margins can depend the fate of mankind. If the killer had found his target, America would have been plunged into its darkest crisis of modern times, and the destiny of the world, already riven by conflict, would have unfolded very differently. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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