Hours apart, Joe Biden and Donald Trump complained Monday with meds about their handling of the violent protests that broke out in two U.S. cities.
The heart of their confrontation: who are the leaders who pose the ultimate harmful risk to the country?
With the conventions over and the final leg of the race after Labor Day to one week, the day marked the start of a more urgent phase of the campaign.The display a stark contrast between two visions of how to deal with a turning point over the race.and the force of law enforcement.
Biden was the first. In a speech in the Pittsburgh primary, he presented a radical U.S. indictment of Trump, pointing out in his handling of the coronavirus and portraying the president as desperate to cling to the force that turns to worry and hatred as a crusade strategy.
“He helps us keep telling us that if he were president, you’d feel safe.Well, he’s president, whether he knows it or not,” Biden said.”Does anyone think there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?”
After days when Trump claimed Biden was a tool for a radical movement that sows discord in American cities, Biden tried to put the president on his heels.Biden asked Trump to denounce the entire violence bureaucracy and accused him of sizing the riots with tweet streams.some of which gave the impression of street clashes.
“The way back starts now, in this campaign.You know me. You know my heart, and you know my story, the history of my family,” Biden said in the speech, which aired live on various cable chains.: Do you see yourself as a radical socialist with a comfortable place for troublemakers?Oh, really?”
He added: “I need an America, of Covid, of crime and looting, of violence motivated by racism, of bad cops.And let’s be clear: 4 more years from Donald Trump.”
Biden spoke on Trump’s Eve of Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the site of fatal clashes and destruction after the shooting of Jacob Blake last week. The president plans to meet with law enforcement officials, ignoring Democratic Governor Tony Evers’ request to stay away., les not Trump increasing tensions.
Trump took credit for bringing calm to Kenosha, even though it was Evers who first deployed the National Guard.However, some local Democrats complained that Biden had taken too long to denounce the violence.influence the electorate that needs to end the chaos.
But Trump gave the impression of giving way to the flat he might have won when he turned to social media and not only refused to condemn the violence of some of his own supporters, but retwisted a video of his supporters attacking the protesters.I hadn’t looked at him.
Biden, in his speech, challenged the president to reject violence perpetrated through his own supporters, but a few hours later, in a briefing at the White House, Trump refused to do so, even when asked if his supporters were shooting pepper spray and paintballs at the protesters..
Biden’s speech Monday directly attacked Trump in a way that the Democrat did not have his speech at the conference two weeks ago, when he didn’t say the president’s name.The Democrat called Trump by name, insisting that the president owned the violence in Kenosha, Portland, and other US cities.U.S. after four years of stoking racial tensions.In doing so, he also defended the Obama administration’s crime record.
After months of seeking to mark Biden, Trump and his allies to paint him as an unwitting tool of socialists and left-wing radicals say Biden is too unconscious to perceive that he is being exploited and too weak to counteract his orthodoxy at the rare times when he does so.
But every time Trump tried to score Biden, the Democrat emerged with an advantage and his advantage in the polls increased.
Clashes stick to a familiar pattern. Trump bet biden may not challenge the left’s developing appeals to dispel the police.In response, Biden said that he not only opposed the dis-founding of the police, but sought to spend more on law enforcement.ban on hydraulic fracturing Biden has unequivocally stated that he is not doing so.
And Trump has subsidized the concept that Biden would refuse to condemn the riots for not offending liberal voters, but Biden has denounced riots, looting and asset fires.
“None of this is a protest, it’s anarchy, openly,” Biden said Monday.
When Trump took the podium at the White House later, he tried to blame Biden and his own for the violence that plagues the cities, but Trump has refused to condemn all actors who contribute to the chaos, adding right-wingers to his campaign.wielding paintball guns used the substance as “a defensive mechanism.”
“Painting are bullets, ” he said.
But when asked about Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of five offenses after shooting three other people last week in Kenosha, and two of them were killed, Trump said Rittenhouse had been violently attacked that he could have been killed.
“You saw the same tape that me and he’s looking to escape,” Trump said.”You’re under investigation, but I suppose you had very serious problems.He probably would have been killed.”
Rittenhouse charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Trump also said he refused to meet with Blake’s family circle because he was not comfortable with his lawyer application.
Trump has harshly criticized Biden for visiting Wisconsin.In the midst of the pandemic, Biden moved his acceptance speech from Milwaukee to Wilmington, Delaware, raising security concerns.
“Joe Biden has refused to go to Wisconsin for more than 670 days, so it’s no wonder he refuses to go to Badger state and face the ongoing riots and violence,” Trump’s crusade spokeswoman Samantha Zager said.In a crusade for the president, it is transparent that Biden prefers to hide from his failure and the Democratic mess to protect our cities.”
Biden is gearing up for a more physically powerful schedule after Labor Day, but could arrive in Wisconsin later this week, according to the campaign.