Trump rally shooting could upend poll race
The attack, by a shooter who was killed by the Secret Service, was the first attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since 1981.
Washington | Donald Trump was injured in what the FBI said was an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening (Sunday AEST), in an act of political violence that threatens to upend an already polarised US election race.
Within hours of the shooting the FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crook as the sniper, and senior Republicans moved to lay blame on their political rivals.
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