Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE’s (D-Mass.) presidential campaign is calling efforts to paint the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, as a Warren supporter an “attempt to distract” from the “direct line” between President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s rhetoric and a separate mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

“There is absolutely no place for violence in our politics and Elizabeth and our campaign condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” Kristen Orthman, a spokesperson for the Warren campaign, said in a statement on Tuesday.

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“Leaders have a responsibility to speak out and to not incite violence. But let’s be clear – there is a direct line between the president’s rhetoric and the stated motivations of the El Paso shooter. This is an attempt to distract from the fact that Trump’s rhetoric is inciting violence as extremist-related murders have spiked 35 percent from 2017 to 2018,” she added.

A Twitter account that is believed to belong to Connor Betts, the 24-year-old who is alleged to have shot and killed nine people in Dayton over the weekend, has tweeted supportive messages for Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power Bernie Sanders: 'This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump stokes fears over November election outcome MORE (I-Vt.) as well as content promoting the left-wing group antifa.

However, there is no evidence to suggest that the Dayton attack was politically motivated.

Betts’s sister was among the victims of the shooting rampage, and Betts was said to be obsessed with graphic violence. In high school, Betts allegedly kept a “hit list” of students and school officials he said he wanted to kill or rape.

Still, some Republicans, such as Texas Sen. John Cornyn John CornynQuinnipiac polls show Trump leading Biden in Texas, deadlocked race in Ohio The Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting Liberal super PAC launches ads targeting vulnerable GOP senators over SCOTUS fight MORE, have sought to highlight Betts’s left-wing politics.

“The Dayton killer was a left-winger, but don’t blame Sen. Warren,” Cornyn tweeted.

Orthman responded by retweeting a message from political operative Stuart Stevens, who said, “I’d blame Senator Warren if she had been using violent rhetoric and trying to score political points and raise money stoking fears about an invasion. She’s not. You know the difference. Why carry water for Donald Trump, a man you know is an idiot?”

The back-and-forth comes as Democrats blame Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for a separate mass shooting in El Paso over the weekend that resulted in 22 deaths.

Patrick Crusius, the alleged El Paso shooter, wrote a manifesto in which he said he was motivated by a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

That language mirrors rhetoric Trump has used to describe immigrants coming into the country illegally, although the alleged shooter said he formed some of his beliefs before Trump was elected.

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Tuesday it is irresponsible of Democrats to assign blame to anyone but the shooter, arguing that Trump is not blaming Warren or Sanders for the deaths in Dayton.

"It’s been confirmed overnight by CNN and others that it looks like this Dayton monster, the shooter in Ohio, had leftist leanings and a Twitter feed that was complimentary of antifa, complimentary of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySpecial counsel investigating DeVos for potential Hatch Act violation: report George and Kellyanne Conway honor Ginsburg Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE said. “Am I blaming them for the shooting? Of course not."