President Joe Biden renewed his condemnation of political violence and called for national unity Sunday after an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania.
“Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy. It’s part of human nature. Politics must never be a literal battlefield or God forbid, a killing field,” Biden said in a primetime address from the Oval Office Sunday night.
In his remarks, the president referenced or alluded to a number of past cases of political violence, including shootings of Democratic and Republicans members of Congress, the attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi and the kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
