Hours after the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, prominent conservative influencers spun unsubstantiated theories that the suspect was a left-wing extremist who targeted the Democratic-aligned leaders for voting against party lines, and did so with the blessing of the state’s top Democrat, Gov. Tim Walz.

Several MAGA members have called out the state's Democratic leader over his previous appointment of the suspect to the governor's workforce development board.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in

Gov. Tim Walz said that Minnesota Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also each shot multiple times.

A gunman shot two Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota early Saturday, killing one and her spouse and wounding the other, in what the state's Governor Tim Walz said were "politically motivated" attacks.