In light of assassination attempt, Biden's Austin trip is off

President Biden's planned visit today to Austin has been postponed in light of the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Why it matters: The Austin visit was shaping up as a matter of intense national interest amid persistent questions around Biden's re-election campaign.

• That narrative has been pushed aside, for the moment, by the shocking act of violence on Saturday.

Zoom out: Biden was scheduled to deliver an address at the LBJ Presidential Library to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, signed into law by former President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

• Biden condemned political violence on Saturday evening, saying: "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."
• Biden and Trump also spoke briefly on Saturday following the attempted assassination.

What's next: The anniversary program at the LBJ Library is being rescheduled to later this month — no date has yet been announced — and "President Biden remains committed to joining us," LBJ Foundation president and CEO Mark K. Updegrove said on Sunday.

The bottom line: "We endured the agony of President Kennedy's assassination, President Ford's attempted assassinations, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King," Johnson's daughters Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb and Gerald Ford's daughter Susan Ford Bales said in a joint statement Sunday.

• "Our parents are gone, but our families stand together, calling for peace and healing in these difficult days. There is no place for violence in America."