“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that

President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”

• J.D. Vance, U.S. senator

“Fran and I are very happy that the president is doing OK, but it was a horrific scene. We have been watching it on T.V… It is just a horrible, horrible thing.”

• Mike DeWine, Ohio governor

“Political violence is completely unaccep-table and has no place in

our democracy.”

• U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown

“Politics must never be a literal battlefield, or God forbid, a killing field.”

• President Joe Biden during address to the nation