Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump’s “law and order” message about violent protests and asked the electorate if they felt safer with the 180,000 COVID-19 kills and the emerging murder rate this year.
“Do I look like a radical socialist with a comfortable place for troublemakers?”Biden asked in a 24-minute speech in Pittsburgh.” I need an America – from COVID, free of crime and looting, free from violence motivated by racists, from bad cops.”
At last week’s Republican National Convention, Trump and his supporters argued that protests and riots would accumulate if Biden won the November 3 election and falsely claimed that Biden had not convicted violent demonstrators.
In his final speech Thursday at RNC, Trump said, “No one will be in Biden’s America.”
Biden responded that violent crime had fallen by 15% while he was Obama administration vice president, but that the homicide rate increased by 26% this year under Trump.COVID-19 killed 180,000 Americans. The Social Security actuary predicted that the program would be permanent.exhausted until 2023 if the country abandons the payroll tax that budgets it, as Trump has proposed.
“Do you feel safer with Donald Trump?” Biden asked.
Biden condemned violence Sunday at racial justice protests in Portland, as he has for months in the protests.
“The riots don’t protest. Looting is not a protest.Making fire is not a protest,” Biden said Monday.”None of this is a protest. It’s anarchy, natural and simple.Those who are prosecuted.”
But he said Trump was stoking the flames instead of trying to put them out.Biden said if he were elected, he would seek to negotiate police reforms with victims of racial violence and the police.
“The fires are burning and we have a president who is stoking the flames that are fighting the flames,” Biden said.”Donald Trump is watching this violence and sees a political lifeguard.”
Kenosha, Wisconsin, has become the height of violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, a black father who was paralyzed from the waist down on August 23.Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was accused of shooting two other people during the resulting protests.
Trump plans to go to Kenosha on Tuesday, but Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, asked him to reconsider his decision.Kayleigh McEnany, a White House spokeswoman, said Monday that Trump plans to meet with law enforcement officials and commercial homeowners to investigate the incident.damage caused through protests.
Trump tweeted Monday that he had seen Biden’s speech and said he appeared to blame the police more than “the troublemakers, the anarchists, the assailants and the looters.”He warned that the Democratic nominee feared wasting supporters of The “radical left” of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security sent federal agents to Portland in July, despite opposition from the governor and the mayor, to the federal court’s defense against vandalism and arson.
Federal deployments expanded in August to Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Memphis and St.Louis.
The Pittsburgh speech marks the beginning of what Biden said were more travel in the last nine weeks of the crusade, after Biden remained relatively cloistered in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia because of the pandemic.Trump and his representatives have ridiculed Biden for hiding.in his basement they follow the path of the crusade.
Biden said at a virtual fundraiser Thursday that he planned to go to states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Arizona after Labor Day, as long as the occasions can be organized responsibly with social estrangement.
“I will do it across the country where I can do so in accordance with state regulations on the number of other people who can meet,” Biden said.
Biden made an unforeseen impediment after the speech to deliver some pizzas to Pittsburgh Fire Department’s Local 1.Biden spoke to the firefighters and posed for a photo of the organization.He wore a mask all the time.
“I’m afraid my staff will stick with them,” Biden said of the Mineo’s Pizza House food.
The civilians at the scene were a combined bag: a lone protester was standing on top of a white truck screaming from a megaphone that Pennsylvania would vote for Biden.
“Don’t jump!” Biden told the man, ignored him otherwise.
When Biden returned to his car, a woman in a wheelchair called him from the sidewalk and recognized herself as a supporter of her campaign.He asked her name, but apologized for not shaking her hand due to fitness guidelines.
“I’m going to meet you, Kimberly, ” said Biden, and thanked him for his support.
Contribution: William Cummings