Former President Donald Trump, “assuming he is up for attending, and I assume he will be, will be greeted as a kind of martyr of this event and I think it could be angrier or could be more somber,” Axelrod said on CNN. “But it’s certainly not going to be the same.”
“Horrendous news from PA,” Axelrod wroteon X. “In America, we settle our differences through our votes, not violence. Violence is never the answer.”
Axelrod called Saturday’s events a “bracing moment for our country” during a “bitter election.”
“Hopefully a moment for reflection where everybody kind of pulls back from the abyss so we don’t see this as a recurring event,” Axelrod said.
The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin Monday in Milwaukee, where Trump is set to formally accept the party’s presidential nomination.