A morning’s baseball drill becomes an assault on Republicans

By MEGHAN HOYER and CALVIN WOODWARD
ALEXANDRIA, Va.  — First came the ping of bats, a familiar sound of the leafy neighborhood’s morning. Then the crack of gunfire, which isn’t.
It started with a single pop, which for a split second was not alarming to the Republican members of Congress who had gathered for a final practice before a charity baseball game with Democrats this week. As one lawmaker would later note, it could have been a car backfiring.
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