President Joe Biden condemned political violence as “sick” during an impromptu address to the nation after former President Donald Trump survived a shooting during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

From a police station in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where Biden was spending the weekend, the president told the public he had tried to reach his Republican opponent by telephone, but so far the pair had not connected. The White House later confirmed that the two men had spoken.

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