US Political Violence Surges to Record, Bloomberg Analysis Shows

Political violence in a polarized US is surging, with the past five years of assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians the highest on records dating back to the 1960s, a Bloomberg Geo-Economic analysis shows.

Since the start of 2021, there have been five assassinations or attempted assassinations of politicians, including two on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2024, according to the Violence Project — a research center at Hamline University. The analysis follows the killing this week of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a close Trump ally, during a campus event in Utah.