INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Joe Biden used the formal setting of the White House Oval Office on Sunday to ask Americans to lower the political temperature
and remember they are neighbors after a would-be assassin wounded Republican rival Donald Trump.Trump&s shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania
on Saturday &calls on all of us to take a step back,& Biden said
Thankfully Trump was not seriously injured, he said.&We can&t allow this violence to be normalized
The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated
It&s time to cool it down,& he said.&We all have a responsibility to do this.&&In America we resolve our differences at the ballot box
Not with bullets,& Biden said in a speech that was about seven minutes long, and carried live by major news networks and the conservative
channel Fox News.It was Biden&s third use of the formal setting of the Oval Office to comment on issues of major importance to Americans
since he took power in 2021
This time, it is less than four months to go before the Nov
5 election, and Biden&s political future is in doubt.Biden&s appearance allowed him to demonstrate the power of incumbency, an important
symbolic image as he battles some in his own Democratic Party who want the 81-year-old leader to step aside from seeking re-election out of
concerns he lacks the mental acuity for another four-year term.Four U.S
presidents have been assassinated and several escaped assassination attempts
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