With the first attack on an American ex-President in decades….
President Biden has slowed his campaign and put on his ‘Presidental’ person and explored Americans to NOT react with violence against those one might not agree with….
He has also reached out to Donald Trump with the same message that Trump has repeated on social media …..
Democrats have paused their ‘Biden must quit’ thing right now….
Everyone IS waiting to see the polls this week with the shooting and the Republican Convention….
BTW?
Even with the debate two weeks ago?
The polling remains about the same with Trump having a slim lead nationally and bide behind in some of the swing states he won back in 2020…..
President Biden on Sunday night made a primetime plea to lower the temperature in American politics after a gunman shot at former President Trump at a rally the day prior.
“The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down,” Biden said in remarks in the Oval Office. “This places an added burden on all of us that no matter how strong our convictions, we must never descend into violence.”
The president’s 7-minute message of unity came after a 20-year-old gunman fired shots into a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania, with former president Trump reporting that one bullet grazed his ear. The shooter, identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., targeted the rally from a nearby rooftop.
“Let’s remember here in America, while unity is the most elusive of goals right now, nothing is more important for us now than standing together. We can do this,” Biden said.
“Let’s never lose sight of who we are,” he added.
Biden and Trump spoke on Saturday night and had a “good” conversation, Biden said earlier on Sunday. After those remarks, Trump posted “UNITE AMERICA!” to his Truth Social account….
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Biden made remarks earlier on Sunday, condemning the assassination attempt and saying that he initiated an independent review of the security situation at the rally. Biden also offered condolences to the victim, who has been identified as Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former firefighter who was protecting his family during the gunfire.
Biden’s campaign suspended communications on Saturday after the shooting and plans to start them back up on Monday night, a campaign official told The Hill. The president is participating in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday…..
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Democrats lay off Biden….
For Democrats, the phrase of the day was “proceed with caution.”
A day after a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, and after the Democratic Party continued to debate whether or not President Biden should withdraw from the presidential election, the president’s allies and other party operatives were left quietly wondering how the latest plot twist in the campaign would ultimately play out. …
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“There are more questions than answers right now,” one top Democratic strategist and a close Biden ally acknowledged. “I don’t think anyone knows how this will turn out, even this week. There are so many unknowns.”
Above all, the debate around Biden’s age and mental acuity was on hold, according to more than a dozen Democratic sources who requested anonymity to speak openly about a sensitive topic, which no one wanted to touch in the hours following the shooting.
While the conversation around whether or not Biden should withdraw dominated the headlines and created a seemingly endless news cycle over the past two weeks, Democrats from lawmakers to donors quickly fell silent on the issue.
“This is not the time,” one Democratic donor, who has expressed reservations about Biden in recent days, said. “That’s not to say it won’t come back in a few days or next week. But it would be incredibly insensitive to have the debate on Biden right now.”
“We all need to take a breath and see what happens,” the donor added….
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Biden the ‘consoler in chief’…..
Biden’s case to stay in the race was also bolstered Sunday by three national polls that showed he has lost little ground to Trump since his woeful debate performance late last month. In all three of the polls — from Fox News, NBC News and CBS News — Trump is up by 1 or 2 points nationally. However, the picture could change following the attempt on Trump’s life. …
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Since the assassination attempt, Biden has sought to be the consoler in chief, even with Trump, his longtime rival, whom he spoke with on Saturday night. The White House has sought to portray Biden accordingly, releasing photos of Biden receiving a briefing inside the Situation Room from Homeland Security and law enforcement officials….
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One strategist said in the short term, while campaigning is sidelined, it’s beneficial to Biden to be seen as the one reassuring the American public while temporarily setting aside differences with Trump.
“It helps Biden’s argument,” the strategist said. “He represents stability. He’s managing a crisis. And in a way he’s answering the argument about his mental acuity.”….
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