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Are Republicans Ready for Biden’s Counterattack?

Donald Trump has a lot of things to celebrate this week, but a foregone conclusion in November isn’t one of them.

Joe Biden is down in the polls and losing the unwinnable war against time’s toll.

But he’s nothing if not tenacious, and the president has a trick ready to turn Trump’s latest triumph — over an assassin’s bullet — into a political defeat.

In his Oval Office remarks Sunday, Biden tied the attempt on Trump’s life to a litany of other acts of political violence, including the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

He was returning to a winning theme from 2020, when the summer of rage following the death of George Floyd gave Democrats an opening to identify Trump with chaos.

The Biden campaign’s next move is obvious enough — blame Trump and the GOP themselves for the assassination attempt by linking it to their position on…

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