(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden said determination is nary spot successful America for governmental unit similar the attempted assassination of his predecessor.

“It’s clip to chill it down,” the president said successful an code from the Oval Office Sunday evening.

While investigators don’t cognize the motive oregon governmental beliefs of 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who authorities accidental fired astatine erstwhile President Donald Trump, Biden recounted the basal facts that shocked the nation.

“A erstwhile president was shot. An American national killed portion simply exercising his state to enactment the campaigner of his choosing,” helium said.

“Politics indispensable ne'er beryllium a literal battlefield and God forbid a sidesplitting field. There is nary spot successful America for this benignant of violence,” Biden added.

He noted that the Republican National Convention begins connected Monday, and Republicans volition surely knock his grounds arsenic president.

“I’ll proceed to talk retired powerfully for our democracy, basal up for our constitution and the regularisation of law. That’s however ideology should work. We statement and disagree. But successful America, we resoluteness our differences astatine the ballot box.” Biden somewhat flubbed that sentence, which came retired “battle box.”

Biden, portion postponing a travel to Austin, Texas, to talk astatine the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Library, volition spell up with a travel to Las Vegas to talk to the nation’s largest African American and Latino organizations.

He concluded by saying Americans indispensable proceed to beryllium the spot wherever the regularisation of instrumentality is respected, and wherever dignity and just play are “living, breathing, realities.”

“Hate indispensable person nary harmless harbor,” Biden added.