Trump, Harris and two assassination attempts. Our election language crisis is spinning out of control
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Less than 72 hours away from another assassination attempt, leaders are failing to take a pause to take the temperature down. Instead, they are ratcheting it up.
Lee Hartley Carter is president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategist, researcher and author of "Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter" (TarcherPerigee, September 3, 2019). Follow her on X on @lh_carter.
And we are seeing it happen in real time. Not even 72 hours away from the news cycle, leaders are failing to take a pause to take the temperature down. Instead, they are ratcheting it up. Just one day after the assassination attempt, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was on MSNBC calling Trump a "danger to the country and the world" while Elon Musk took to X in his since-deleted missive suggesting that "no one is even trying to assassinate" President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.
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