President Joe BidenI was visiting Buffalo, New York on Tuesday to console families of victims in a massacre this weekend in which a gunman of one race attacked Black communities. This is just the latest act of racism the Trump campaign has promised to curb in the months before the 2020 elections.

Biden will be spending much of the day in West New York, where officials claim that Payton Gendron (18) committed an act racially motivated violent extremeism. when he shot 13 people with a semi-automatic rifleAt the Tops Friendly Market Saturday. Ten were among those killed.

Karine Jean-Pierre White House Press Secretary said Tuesday morning, that Jill Biden and the President will pay their respects to those who died in Saturday’s shooting and have a meeting with law enforcement officials and emergency responders.

She stated that Bidens plans to attend a Tops Market Memorial to express his condolences to the deceased and to deliver remarks to a community centre in the late afternoon.

U.S. U.S. Schumer, Gillibrand and both are Democrats.

Jean-Pierre spoke aboard Air Force One and stated that President Obama plans to use the speech, which is scheduled for noon. ET to condemn racial prejudices and to urge Congress to adopt new measures to combat gun crime and domestic terror.

She stated, “The President will refer to this deplorable act as it is: Terrorism motivated a hateful ideology that tears at our souls,”

Jean-Pierre stated that Biden would like lawmakers to take “action to keep weapons of War off our streets, and keep guns out the hands criminals and those who have serious mental illness that make them a threat to themselves and others,” Jean Pierre added.

Biden pledged to eradicate racism as a Presidential candidate for 2020. His comparisons with the former President were frequent. Donald TrumpThe first time that he failed to condemn the white supremacist, he was later convicted. rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia2017

Biden stated that Trump’s bigotry at the Charlottesville rally in August 2020 convinced him to run for president. This was months before Trump won.

“It was an alarming wake-up call to us as a nation. It was a wake-up call for us as a country. Biden said at the time. “At that point, I realized I would have to run”

But Tuesday’s trip to Buffalo will again highlight the steep challenges facing Biden and other Democrats who say gun control measures are critical to reduce racial violence.

Biden’s administration has not made much progress against white supremist groups and gun deaths. Numerous Republicans legislators have blocked efforts to pass gun control legislation since the shootings.

Congress has been asked by the president to mandate background checks for all firearm buyers. It should also ban high-capacity magazines.

On Sunday, Gendron was reported by police to have been under investigation for his social media accounts. He is also suspected of having written a 180-page manifesto explaining the “Great Replacement Theory,” which is a conspiracy theory in which racial minorities are trying to disempower and replace white Americans.