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I'm just curious of a hypothetical alternative past, present and future. Lol. I'm not American, just an Aussie who was 14 at the time of the US 2008 election, yet I watched the results with interest at the time. I'm watching Game Change the 2012 movie as I type this. Keep in mind John McCain died in 2018, hypothetically two years after finishing a hypothetical second term in office as President, alternative history. All imagination as alternative history fiction. Respectful answers only please or blocks/report buttons

Democrats used increasingly incendiary rhetoric against President Trump in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the two assassination attempts:

Kamala Harris — repeatedly: "Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms."
Kamala Harris: "It's on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses."
Kamala Harris: "Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!"
Joe Biden: "It's time to put Trump in a bullseye."
Joe Biden: "I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation."
Joe Biden: "There is one existential threat: it's Donald Trump."
Joe Biden: "Trump is a genuine threat to this nation... He's literally a threat to everything America stands for."
Joe Biden: "Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country."
Joe Biden: "Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic... and that is a threat to this country."
Tim Walz: "Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. ... Are they going to put peoples' lives in danger? Yes."
Gwen Walz: "Buh-bye, Donald Trump."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi: "[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically."
Rep. Dan Goldman: "He is destructive to our democracy and... he has to be eliminated."
Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: "Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy."
Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: "Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis."
Rep. Steve Cohen: "Trump is an enemy of the United States."
Rep. Maxine Waters: "Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?"
Rep. Maxine Waters: "I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere."

- www.donaldjtrump.com/.../7b04b05d-a8ed-479c-b92d-5868a1f6873b

BONUS QUESTION: International people, what's your view on the the lengths that MAGA/GOP American legislators go through to prevent people from voting? I specified MAGA / GOP legislators because they are OVERWHELMINGLY responsible for erecting barriers to voting.

*Regarding option four, the opportunity to fix an error, in some states they have by law that mail-in ballots may not be counted until after election day so that presents its own problems.

STATE BY STATE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE BARRIERS TO MAIL IN VOTING:

While Georgia requires just the voter's signature, six states require an additional signature from a witness and three states require the ballot envelope to be notarized, according to the NCSL. Alaska, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin require witness signatures.

Minnesota and Rhode Island normally require this too, but dropped the requirement for November due to COVID-19. And Mississippi, Missouri and Oklahoma require the envelope to be signed by a public notary. Alabama requires a copy of the voter's ID, in addition to either a notary or signatures from two witnesses over the age of 18, according to the secretary of state. In North Carolina, ballots must be signed by either two witnesses over the age of 18 (the witnesses must provide their addresses) or by a public notary.