Joe Biden has said many, many times, he's going to be the nominee.

Politics must never be a literal battlefield and, God forbid, a killing field.

We owe that to those who come before us, to those who gave their lives for this country. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our children and our grandchildren.

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.

There's no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country.

The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a would-be assassin.

We cannot — we must not go down this road in America. We’ve traveled it before throughout our history. Violence has never been the answer.

It's time to cool it down.

He talked about the tenets of democracy and the need to continue the discussion and the real debate using words and not anything else, and focusing on the end goal, which is November and the ballot box.

There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be normalized.

Look, there is no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this.

We need to reduce the rhetoric and the tone.

I've said it many times that the choice in this -- we make in this election is going to shape the future of America and the world for decades to come.

I urge everyone, everyone, please, don't make assumptions about his motives or his affiliations. Let the FBI do their job and their partner agencies do their job.

But in America, we resolve our differences at the battle box. You know, that's how we do it, at the ballot box, not with bullets.

Here in America, we need to get out of our silos, where we only listen to those with whom we agree, where misinformation is rampant, where foreign actors fan the flames of our division to shape the outcomes consistent with their interests…

We cannot, we must not go down this road in America.

It cannot be tolerated. This has to end.