The president says the upcoming election will be a "time of testing" in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.
to reject political violence and recommit themselves to resolving their differences peacefully, saying the upcoming presidential election will be a "time of testing" in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former president
Since the shooting, the president and his team had been grappling with how to calibrate the political path forward after the weekend attack targeting the very person Biden is trying to defeat in November's election. Biden sharply condemned the attack, but indicated he plans to continue to press his campaign agenda and has "no doubt" Republicans will do the same when they open the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.
Biden promised a "thorough and swift" review and asked the public not to "make assumptions" about the shooter's motives or affiliations.Biden spoke for six minutes in his third address to the nation since Saturday evening's attack by a shooter that left Trump with a bloodied ear, killed one rallygoer and seriously injured two others.
The president also postponed a planned trip to Texas on Monday, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library. An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned.
Trump, meanwhile, arrived Sunday evening in Milwaukee for the Republican convention, where criticism of Biden and the Democrats is sure to be searing. "We'll debate and we'll disagree, that's not going to change," Biden said in his afternoon remarks. "But we'll not lose sight of who we are as Americans."
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