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Posted: 2024-07-15T00:46:06Z | Updated: 2024-07-15T01:24:58Z

In a Sunday night Oval Office address to the nation, President Joe Biden called on Americans to come together and lower the temperature in our politics, a day after a man shot at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

While we may disagree, we are not enemies, Biden said in his televised address. Were neighbors. Were friends, co-workers, citizens. Most importantly, were fellow Americans. We must stand together.

The president ticked off cases of politically motivated violence in recent years, including members of Congress being the targets of an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; the attack on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); and the kidnapping plot in 2020 against Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

And of course, he said, the attempted assassination of Trump.

Theres no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions, he said. We cant allow this violence to be normalized.

The president said Saturdays shooting at Trumps rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us to take a step back and think about how we go forward from here.