White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say Monday if President Joe Biden regrets any of his past rhetoric against former President Donald Trump.

Trump allies, including the former president’s newly selected running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), had suggested that Biden’s repeated claims that the former president represents a threat to democracy might have emboldened Thomas Matthew Crooks, Trump’s would-be assassin. 

Law enforcement officials have yet to point to a specific motive behind the attempt on Trump’s life.

“We believe it is important to continue to forcefully speak against violence anytime because that is what the president believes, and we do not want to politicize this. Politicizing this moment is unacceptable,” Jean-Pierre told reporters during Monday’s briefing when the topic was raised.

“There are differences in our agenda, and what Republicans believe, right? There are differences and that is OK, and it is OK to speak to someone’s record with someone’s character,” she continued. “We cannot accept violence. We cannot accept that, and so the president’s going to continue to do that, highlight his agenda.”

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Biden delivered a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, where he called on people of all political persuasions to “lower the temperature” surrounding the election.

You can watch Monday’s briefing in full below.