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Biden Tells Americans To 'Cool It Down' After Trump Assassination Bid

The FBI said it was investigating the attack as a potential act of domestic terrorism. (Credit: AFP)

US President Joe Biden sought to calm a divided nation Sunday after his rival Donald Trump survived an assassination bid, saying in a rare Oval Office address that it was time to lower the temperature of America's hostile politics.

"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.

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