Biden Blames Violent Rhetoric for Attack on Pelosi’s Husband
President Joe Biden speaks to the press after voting early in Wilmington, Delaware, on Oct. 29.
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President Joe Biden blamed political rhetoric including denial of the 2020 election result for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, saying “this talk produces the violence.”
“You can’t just apologize and say: the violence,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. “It affects people’s mentality, it affects how people think -- particularly people who are not maybe as stable as other people. So the talk has to stop. That’s the problem.”