The assailant, who had nursed grievances against Mr Trump and the Republican Party, fought a gun battle with police before he was shot and later died.
According to the Washington Post, Orear and Hodgkinson worked together on Sanders' presidential campaign.
The man identified as the gunman who wounded several people, including a congressman, at a Republican baseball practice in the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday campaigned in the Quad-Cities for Sen. One of his Wednesday morning messages came from his 28-year-old daughter: "She texted 'I love you, and come home now, '" Bost said. Let me be as clear as I can be.
If he had gotten on the field Williams said they would have really been sitting ducks.
Hodgkinson, a home inspector from IL, had several minor run-ins with the law in recent years and belonged to a Facebook group called Terminate the Republican Party.
Capitol Police say members of Scalise's security detail returned fire and wounded the shooter, who was taken into custody. "That's the way I got", he said.
Vermont's sole congressmen Peter Welch says he was shocked and tweeted, "Thinking of my friend Steve Scalise, Capitol Police, staff and families".
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He said: "The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that tragically 17 people are now known to have died in the bad fire at Grenfell Tower ".
The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Hodgkinson has been arrested for a variety of offenses, mostly nonviolent, including: damaging a motor vehicle, resisting a peace officer, eluding police and criminal damage to property. In his view, the media's overwhelmingly negative coverage of President Trump has been unfair, but does not feel the mainstream media's negative coverage is what drove Hodgkinson to open fire on Wednesday. He ran a passionate, anti-establishment campaign that won support from many younger, liberal voters and gave Clinton a closer race than many expected, but he eventually backed her candidacy.
Hodgkinson's neighbors in Belleville said they can't believe someone from their sleepy little town would do something like that.
"I am sickened by this despicable act", said Sanders from the Senate floor.
Whatever the motive of the shooter at a congressional baseball practice, some Republicans say they're being threatened like never before.
Hodgkinson's brother Michael said he was angry over the election of Mr Trump and had travelled to Washington to protest.
Becker said more than 10,000 volunteers turned out to help Sanders.
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