Combative Biden refuses to debate Trump again before DNC amid plot to oust him: Live

President Joe Biden is delivering a fired-up speech to the NAACP meeting in Las Vegas.

He began by acknowledging the rough time he’s been having in Washington: “The story goes, Truman said, ‘You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.’ But guess what, last couple weeks, after the last couple weeks, I know what he means.”

Speaking about Donald Trump’s approach to Black America, Biden said to raucous applause: “Black jobs.’ I love this phrase. ‘Black jobs.’ Tells us a lot about the man and his character. Folks, I know what a Black job is. It’s the vice president of the United States. I know what a Black job is. The first Black president in the history of the United States Barack Obama. … I nominated the first Black justice to the Supreme Court.”

He added about Vice President Kamala Harris: “She’s not only a great vice president, she could be president of the United States.”

Donald Trump has spoken with the family of Corey Comperatore, the retired firefighter who died on Saturday during the attempted assassination of the former president, according to reporting by CNN.

Here’s our earlier reporting of his widow speaking about his final words.

The former first daughter highlighted that the Pennsylvania shooting happened almost exactly two years after her mother’s death in 2022.

Mike Bedigan has the story.

“It’s a weird night. Everybody’s still shaken up by the tragic events at the Trump rally this Saturday. All weekend, I kept thinking, ‘I wonder what Jimmy Kimmel’s gonna say about this on Monday,’” Anderson joked in his monologue on Monday. “And then I was like, ‘Oh s***! I am Jimmy Kimmel on Monday.’”

Kevin E G Perry reports from Los Angeles.

He’s running late, so here’s that link again to watch Joe Biden speak at the NAACP meeting in Las Vegas. He will take the stage shortly.

Helen Comperatore told The New York Post at the couple’s home on Monday: “I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics,” she said. “I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for, but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden. He didn’t do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.”

Read more of the report from Io Dodds.

Donald Trump has announced that he and his chosen running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, will speak at a rally on Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The event will be the first rally since both accepted their nominations at the convention.

The scheduled rally comes just a week after the attempted assassination of Trump at a campaign rally last Saturday, where Trump was injured, an attendee died and two others were seriously wounded.