President Joe Biden, in his first campaign appearance since his Republican rival’s assassination attempt, has linked the attack on Donald Trump to racial and gun violence in the United States, urging Americans to condemn it universally.
“We all have a responsibility to lower the temperature and condemn violence in any form,” he said to Black voters in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday.
Speaking at the convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an American civil rights organization, Biden highlighted the violence perpetrated on African Americans, including George Floyd, who was killed by a white police officer in 2020.
For the first time since the shooting at Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign event on Saturday, which killed a rallygoer and wounded others, including the former president, Biden called for stricter gun control and to reenact the U.S. ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.
In speech to Black voters, Biden links violence on Trump to racial, gun violence
