Two Days, Two Cities, Two Massacres

<p>In two days, in two cities — El Paso and Dayton, Ohio — two mass shootings have left at least 29 people dead. We look at two stories from one of those shootings. Guests: Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and Jennifer Medina, who is covering the 2020 presidential campaign, spoke with us from El Paso. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The back-to-back bursts of gun violence <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/mass-shootings-dayton-el-paso.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">left a nation stunned and shaken</a>.</li><li>The shooting rampage in El Paso was the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/el-paso-shooting-mexico-border.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history</a>. It is being investigated as domestic terrorism.</li><li>The Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who represented El Paso for years in Congress, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/politics/beto-el-paso-shooting.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">said that President Trump had “a lot to do with what happened.”</a></li></ul>