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 been reduced by 15% while he was vice president of the Obama administration, 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 permanently 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 the violence Sunday at racial justice protests in Portland, as he has done for months for 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 looking to put them out.Biden said that if 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 a hot spot for 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 and killing 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 Thursday at a virtual fundraiser 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.
Contribution: William Cummings