FROM PERE, Wis. – Alexis Arnold says he sympathizes with protesters who have peacefully fought racial injustice this summer. But as some protests turn into violence, yours grows.
“Why are we so damaged right now?” wonders the owner of the 44-year-old art gallery.
Uncertainty pushes her toward the stability that President Donald Trump can offer. He spent weeks putting security and protection issues at the forefront of the presidential campaign. And there are signs that some Wisconsin voters are listening, after the protests turned violent in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a white cop shot seven times at a black man, Jacob Blake.
“The public just wants anything to feel comfortable and again,” said Arnold, who is white, voted for Democrats in the afterlife and is raising a birracial girl. “I almost prefer Trump to stay and check to resolve it. To bring in someone new.
That sentiment may prove decisive in Wisconsin, a state that put Trump in the White House in 2016 after exhausting him by less than a percentage point. The president has already used obscure and misleading warnings of destruction on the streets of the United States in the wake of the violence in Portland, Oregon, and now seizes the riots in Kenosha, where he will on Tuesday.
His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, condemned the violence and pointed more at the victims of police brutality.
But riot photographs in Kenosha (protesters who oppose police, broken windows and a teenager with an AR-15 flavor gun on the streets) are stepping up in the Wisconsin department. In interviews with dozens of electorates in Green Bay and its suburbs, Democrats saw racism and concern in Trump’s messages as part of a ploy to replace the pandemic issue. Republicans, even those who have cared about Trump’s taste on other issues, have unwaveringly supported him.
And some of the few voters in his team said they were attracted to Trump at the moment, a cautionary sign for Biden, who tried to make the election a transparent referendum on Trump, his leadership and his coronavirus management.
As a component of this strategy, Biden has practically moved away from face-to-face crusades and has sometimes kept a low profile (his crusade says this is due to a change). This technique has left some electorates who have not excluded Trump. Biden’s position on race and criminal justice, a vacuum temporarily filled with misinformation.
“That’s where he’d get rid of the police,” Guerts said, referring to a lie often repeated about Biden’s position.
Guerts, a hesitant Trump voter, says a friend flooded his phone with messages in Trump’s favor. Madison’s 55-year-old postman, who was in town to make a stop at his father’s house, said he didn’t know everything his friend sent was true, but he didn’t know enough to feel comfortable with Biden.
“I’ve been a Republican. I’m torn,” he said, noting that police brutality is an urgent problem. But that doesn’t excuse anarchy. »
There is far less ambiguity between Trump’s pillars. Many rushed to organize all the protesters and Democrats in combination as “socialists.” Some have questioned the lifestyles of systemic racism in the United States and argued that black Americans incite police to use force. And they rarely mention Kyle Rittenhouse, the white teenager accused of shooting three people, killing two people, in Kenosha.
Instead, they saw democrats and their allies fueling the riots.
“They did nothing to prevent it,” said Rick Demro, a retired 60-year-old commander of the Green Bay Police Department. “You don’t see them supporting law enforcement. They are quick to judge before the facts are revealed. I think all they do is publicize the riots instead of looking to suppress them. Part of me says it’s to help them with the Campaign. “
Demro said he is irritated by professional athletes and organizations that denounce police brutality, adding his beloved Green Bay Packers. He hasn’t missed a home game since the early 1980s and has waited 30 years to get his season tickets. But this week, he told his wife to leave them in protest. (She refused, she says, because she needs to pass them on to her children.)
I’m not among Trump supporters who said they saw a challenge in surveillance. When he saw a video of a Minneapolis police officer immobilizing George Floyd against the floor until he stopped moving, the May incident that sparked a new motion widely supported by racial justice, he said he knew it was “false.”
But there is evidence to recommend that the occasions of the following months had a negative effect on public aid to protesters in the state.
A vote through Marquette University Law School found that aid for protests declined by thirteen percent from June to August and now even disapproves. The Wisconsin citizens’ survey conducted before the Kenosha shootings found that aid fell unless the city of Milwaukee, adding the suburbs, suburbs and major cities, where Trump and Biden compete for help.
To get to Wisconsin, Trump wants to raise the score in the state’s conservative suburbs and suburbs, working-class spaces where union loyalty to Democrats has faded and cultural appeal has been strengthened. Although brown County ruled in Green Bay in 2016, a gain of 11 percentage points, the region this spring subsidized a Democratic-subsidized Supreme Court justice in an unexpected surge in Democratic turnout.
They were Democrats like Michelle Yurek, a fourth-grade instructor who was preparing to retrain in a classroom last week, while Trump told the Republican National Convention that “no one will be in Biden’s America.”
“I don’t think we’re in Trump’s America,” Yurek said from her home in an impeccable Green Bay development where she lives with her husband and three children. “I think it caused a lot of division.”
Taking your voters to the polls, as it overcomes the obstacles to voting in the pandemic, is a must for Biden. This means winning an electorate like Brittaney Leake, a 27-year-old employee in an organizational house and a mother of three, with another on the way.
Leake says she did not vote in 2016 because she is disappointed with what she considers the damaged promises of politicians. Biden didn’t give him an explanation for why to replace the course, he said.
“Just because I’m a Democrat doesn’t mean I have my vote,” Leake said. “If I don’t see exactly what he’s going to do for a change, I probably won’t vote for it. Array… We have to do something.
Arnold, the gallery owner, voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago. But she’s not dissatisfied with Trump’s record. She believes he is looking for corporations like hers and some positive things are heard about her justice reform bill.
It is now intimidating to replace leaders at a time when everyone is “too stretched.” She is still thinking about her choice, wishing she could listen to more than two applicants for a restart plan. “I think we’re all a little exhausted. And we just have to go back to a kind of general life.”
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