Biden warns of election-year rhetoric in prime-time address

President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

President Joe Biden warned on Sunday of the risks of political violence in the US after Saturday’s attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, saying: “It’s time to cool it down.”

In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Mr Biden said political passions can run high but “we must never descend into violence”.