- The Biden campaign said it's pausing "outbound communications" after a shooting at a Trump rally.
- Biden also condemned the incident, calling it "sick."
President Joe Biden will be pausing campaign communications following a shooting incident at a Donald Trump campaign rally on Saturday.
"The Biden campaign is pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible," a Biden campaign official told Business Insider in a statement.
The official did not clarify the exact reason behind the campaign's decision to pull down the ads.
The White House also released a statement condemning political violence.
"I'm grateful to hear that he's safe and doing well…There's no place for this kind of violence in America," Biden said in the White House statement. "We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
Biden later addressed the nation, calling the incident "sick."
Following the shooting, the Secret Service announced that Trump was "safe."
Potential Trump vice presidential pick, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, criticized the Biden campaign on X, claiming that its messaging resulted in the "attempted assassination" of Trump.
Today is not just some isolated incident.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 14, 2024
The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
Per a Secret Service statement, one spectator was killed at the rally, and two remain critically injured. The shooter was "neutralized" by the Secret Service personnel, the statement said.