Donald Trump praised Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their “nice” messages to him after he survived a second assassination attempt.

The kind words from Trump took his supporters by surprise amidst a vicious presidential race that has seen Democrats characterize Trump as a threat to democracy.

“He was so nice to me yesterday. In one way I sort of wish the call wasn’t made, because I do feel a little — he’s so nice. ‘I’m so sorry about what happened,’ and all that,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan.

Trump’s kind words

“Same with Kamala today. She could not have been nicer,” Trump added. “But the fact is, we have to have people that are respected by the opponent.”

The suspect in Sunday’s murder attempt, Ryan Routh, had a Biden-Harris sticker on his truck and echoed Democratic rhetoric that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”

Routh set up a sniper’s nest on the perimeter of Trump’s Florida golf course Sunday. The Secret Service noticed the barrel of his gun poking through the bushes.

"I have to say, Secret Service did a hell of a job," Trump said. "One of the agents was walking a couple of holes in front and he saw a rifle.”

Days before Routh attempted to ambush Trump, Harris accused her rival on national television of inciting “the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war.”

Left doubles down

While Trump thanked Harris and Biden for expressing concern, he has made it clear that he believes they played a role in encouraging threats against him.

“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," Trump said of Routh in an interview with Fox News Digital. "Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out." 

Despite the gestures of goodwill from Trump, Biden and Harris, some Democrats have perished in blaming Trump for the violent threats he faces.

His former electoral rival Hillary Clinton called Trump a “danger” to the country.

"The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should," Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "They careen from one outrage to the next … I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”