What is behind the uptick in political violence recently? (4-28-26 Full Show)

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent increase in political violence, including assassination attempts against public figures.

Just over the past two years or so, we've seen now three assassination attempts against President Trump including the incident at the White House Correspondents' dinner, we saw the assassination of one of the top mainstream conservative voices in Charlie Kirk, and we've seen other instances of politically charged violence. What is behind this uptick? We ask you as well as Republican strategist Carl Calabrese.

People in this episode

Host: Bauerle

Guest: Carl Calabrese

Topics covered

• political violence
• assassination attempts
• Republican strategy
• current events
• media influence

Keywords

• political violence
• assassination attempts
• Charlie Kirk
• President Trump
• Carl Calabrese

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Audacy

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