On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's "The Lead," Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that accusing the two would-be Trump assassins of being "on the Democratic team" is "going to perpetuate the violence." And 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump's rhetoric is "inflammatory and often inaccurate," and has been "explicitly violent", but "When you say that you're going to be a dictator on the first day, you are a threat to democracy, and I'm sorry if that sounds bad, but it has nothing to do with violence."