WATCH: House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at 2024 Republican National Convention

House Speaker Mike Johnson has called for toning down political rhetoric after the attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

In his RNC speech, Johnson perhaps veered from that standard a bit, framing the November elections as a stark, almost existential choice for voters.

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After promising a “thorough” House investigation of the attempt on Trump’s life, Johnson said the nation has “come to a moment in America where the basic things that we once took for granted are being openly challenged like never before.”

He said the battle is not “just between two opposing political parties” but instead, “We’re now in the midst of a struggle between two completely different visions of who we are as Americans, and what our country will be.”

Some Republicans have since Saturday blamed President Joe Biden and Democrats for characterizing Trump as a “threat to democracy” with authoritarian leanings.

Johnson suggested in his convention speech that Democratic victories in November were the real threat: “We have no guarantee that this grand experiment in self-governance can endure unless we respond to the call.”