“They wore it on their T-shirts and expressed it in the way they kneeled to pray: At his first event after the Secret Service opened fire on a suspected gunman hiding in the bushes around Trump’s Florida golf club — the second apparent assassination attempt on his life in almost as many months — Trump’s supporters were invoking the divine,” Politico reports.
“Over and over here Tuesday, they asked themselves, who was this lucky? And was it luck, or something more like providence that helped Trump had been able to survive not one but two attempts on his life…”
“That many Trump supporters attribute his survival of what authorities say appeared to be a second assassination attempt to the divine marks a new fervor taking hold in the final weeks of the election — and a digging in of his base, framing the election in stark and apocalyptic terms.”
