FACT CHECK: No, CNN Did Not Report That Trump Sur­vived A ‘Most­ly Peace­ful Assas­si­na­tion Attempt’

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FACT CHECK: No, CNN Did Not Report That Trump Survived A ‘Mostly Peaceful Assassination Attempt’

A viral image shared on X claims CNN report­ed 2024 Repub­li­can nom­i­nee and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump sur­vived a “most­ly peace­ful assas­si­na­tion attempt.” Yet again pic.twitter.com/k3Tw33AvUl — Lib­er­ty Pill Memes (@LibertyPillMeme) Sep­tem­ber 16, 2024 Ver­dict: False The claim is false. ‘A CNN spokesper­son denied the claim’s valid­i­ty in an email to Check Your Fact.’ Fact Check: A recent Asso­ci­at­ed Press/NORC poll found that vot­ers are “split” over whether Trump or 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris would “bet­ter han­dle the econ­o­my,” the out­let report­ed. Four in ten reg­is­tered vot­ers chose Trump, while “a sim­i­lar num­ber” chose Har­ris, accord­ing to the out­let. The X ima …