The president urges US voters to unite in opposition to 'political violence' in next week's midterms.
Mr Biden blamed Mr Trump - whom he did not name, but referred to as "the defeated former president" - for inspiring threats by some Republican candidates to refuse to accept the outcome should they lose next week.
The president also sought to link Mr Trump's election rhetoric to a hammer attack last week on the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "It's a lie that fuelled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years," said Mr Biden. The US government last week distributed a bulletin to law enforcement agencies warning of a "heightened threat" of domestic violent extremism, adding that candidates and election workers could be targeted by individuals with "ideological grievances".
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