President Joe Biden, on Sunday, called on Americans to move from hostile politics.
He made this known in an address after Former President and Republican Candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination bid.
“It’s time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that,” Biden said in a televised address following the attack in which Republican Trump was injured in the ear and a bystander was killed by gunfire.
As the country reeled from images of a bloodied Trump waving his fist after the gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Biden added that US politics “must never be a literal battlefield, God forbid a killing field.”
Biden, giving just the third Oval Office address of his presidency, also mentioned the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters as proof that the situation is getting out of hand.
“We can’t allow this violence to be normalized,” the 81-year-old Democrat said, adding that the November 5 election would be a “time of testing” for the United States.
The brief but emphatic speech went off without any major issues, except for Biden twice mistakenly referring to the ballot box as a “battle box”. Democrats are closely monitoring the president, especially after a poor debate performance that has renewed concerns about his age and capability to govern.
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