Elections 2024 live: Biden back on campaign trail with fired-up NAACP speech after Trump assassination attempt

Joe Biden delivered an energetic and passionate speech to the NAACP meeting in swing-state Nevada on Tuesday afternoon, firing up the crowd by mocking Donald Trump ’s references to “Black jobs” by citing the roles of Barack Obama , Kamala Harris , and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the highest levels of government

The president has sat for interviews in the wake of the assassination attempt on his Republican rival, including taking a combative tone with NBC on Monday, but the speech in Las Vegas marked his return to the campaign trail.

Biden was especially strident about how the Heritage Foundation ’s Project 2025 manifesto would negatively impact people of color.

Nevertheless, following his woeful performance in the first debate against Trump, senior Democrats including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep Adam Schiff are reportedly convinced he will lose and want him off the party’s ticket to stave off electoral disaster in November.

Meanwhile, Trump has also returned to the campaign after he was clipped in the right ear by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks , whose motives remain unknown. At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the newly confirmed GOP nominee announced his running mate is Senator JD Vance of Ohio.