Experts are watching with interest how durable Trump’s speeches about national unity are.
A survivor of an assassination attempt Donald Trump intends to emphasize the unity of the nation in his speech at the party meeting on Thursday. Trump said he had written a new speech after the incident.
The divided people of the United States cannot be united with speeches, international politics experts concluded in the A-studio on Monday.
– I assume that when the substantive issues of politics are discussed, the old rhetoric will probably rise to the surface. If Trump doesn’t fight, the citizens and supporters will. The battle is fought on different grounds, thinks the professor of North American studies at the University of Turku Benita Heiskanen.
According to Heiskanen, it is natural that after an assassination attempt, moral leadership is taken first and efforts are made to bring the nation together.
– The past few years will not be forgotten after this one event. Judging by what kind of conversation is going on in social media. At the same time, let’s think about, let’s train the way for Trump, that he won’t be held responsible for anything.
The new party program is even more advanced
Investigator Maria Lindén The foreign policy institute, like Heiskanen, believes that the American people will not unite, no matter what the decision-makers do.
– I can’t comment on whether Trump will permanently or temporarily change his appearance. The thing that happened to him is extremely personal, although it is also a political thing.
The Republican Party now announced a new party program ahead of its meeting, which Lindén describes as even more sophisticated and more Trump-like than the previous program from 2016.
The reasons for the division are so deep that no one can unite the entire nation, says a professor at LCC International University Markku Ruotsila
– Different images of people, worldviews, perceptions of what constitutes a good society, a good life. Trump has a unique opportunity to address the silent majority. Moving voters there in the middle.
CEO of the Nordic West Office Risto EJ Penttilän according to the presidential election, two very different visions of America’s future are being measured against each other.
If Trump wins the election, he would take the United States more to the right.
– The Democrats’ vision is more European, easier for us to understand. The Republicans’ vision is very different, a clear vision that includes foreign policy, security policy, and domestic policy, Penttilä describes.
An assassination attempt overshadows the party meeting
Donald Trump’s assassination attempt overshadows Monday’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Republicans will officially choose Trump as their presidential candidate at the meeting.
Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on Saturday in Pennsylvania. Trump survived the assassination attempt just fine.
At the event, one person from the audience died and two others were seriously injured.
The Secret Service killed the suspected shooter. The person who attempted the assassination was a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania Thomas Crooks.
Watch Monday’s A-studio at Areena.