During CNN's coverage of the assassination attempt on 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, The Atlantic Senior Editor and CNN Senior Political Analyst Ronald Brownstein stated that Trump can say that people on the left are going after him or "say that this ought to be a wake-up call for all of us, and we ought to pull back from the brink of this hyper, hyper-polarized rhetoric," and "His instinctive reaction was remarkable in some ways, but also was like fight, fight, fight. And that was what he said, even as he showed great personal courage, in kind of -- and a sense for the dramatic in the moment in standing up."