The July 2024 Trump assassination attempt was followed by lower in-group support for partisan violence and increased group unity.

ABSTRACT: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump led to widespread concern that the event would escalate political violence between U.S. partisans. While some politicians pleaded for Americans to unite against political violence and "turn down the temperature" on partisan hostility, others continued to engage in inflammatory rhetoric and blame. Using a national survey in the field at the time of the assassination attempt, we take the temperature of America's partisans before and after the event. We exploit the natural variation induced by the assassination attempt and large daily survey coverage (preattempt: 3,572; postattempt: 703; and 690 in a panel) in the days before and after the attempt to estimate the causal effects of extreme partisan violence on measures of partisan animosity and ident

SUBMITTER: Holliday DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626138 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature