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Two days after Donald Trump’s visit to Kenosha, Democrat Joe Biden will try to highlight the contradiction between him and his Republican opponent in the race for the presidency of the United States, through a meeting in the city with the family of Jacob Blake , who was wounded by police bullets, sparking a new wave of anger at racism.
In public, former Vice President Barack Obama wants to visit the main state city of Wisconsin in the November 3 presidential election to “heal the wounds” of Kenosha.
But the clear signal is that after months of extreme caution due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the veteran politician will return to the scene.
Biden, 77, made his first official plane trip Monday to Pittsburgh in another major state, Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, he agreed to answer journalists’ questions for the first time in weeks at his bastion in Delaware, Washington state.
As for his Republican opponent, he doubled his trips two months before the presidential election, and on Wednesday he visited another city called Wilmington in North Carolina. Trump, 74, constantly taunts Biden, saying he “lacks vitality.”
Biden said Wednesday: “I would like to get out more than I do now, but I believe that any president has a responsibility to be a role model” by adhering to preventive measures to limit the spread of the new Corona virus.
After consultations with his medical experts, the former vice president decided to address Kenosha on Thursday.
Last week, this city on the shores of Lake Michigan witnessed night riots after black American Jacob Blake was seriously injured by seven bullets fired by a police officer in front of his children, during his arrest that was filmed on 23 August. *
– ‘Internal terrorism’ –
These images fueled a historic wave of outrage against racism and police violence in the United States.
“We have to heal the wounds,” Biden said at a rare press conference in front of a few reporters, who parted in large circles drawn on the ground.
A member of Biden’s team confirmed that he would be meeting with relatives of Blake, who is being treated at the hospital and has been paralyzed in Kenosha.
His wife, Jill Biden, will accompany him to another station in Wisconsin, yet to be revealed.
Trump was the last surprise in 2016 when he won this state by a slight margin, while his rival Hillary Clinton did not campaign in it. But this time all eyes are on this state.
Although they are aware of its importance, the Democrats chose to hold their conference this summer to officially nominate Biden in their largest city, Milwaukee. But the conference was held entirely online due to Corona’s broadcast.
The Republican president, reiterating his claim of “law and order,” visited Kenosha on Tuesday. The merchants inspected the debris from the burned shops and thanked the police and described Violent demonstrations As “internal terrorism”. But she did not meet Blake’s relatives and did not even bother to give her name.
The tension culminated on August 25, when a 17-year-old fired a semiautomatic rifle at three protesters in unclear circumstances, resulting in two deaths. His arrest the next day restored him to a precarious calm.
Trump refused to condemn the actions of this young man, Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with premeditated murder.
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Unlike his rival, Joe Biden has consistently condemned “institutional racism” in the United States. In what appeared to be a response to the New York billionaire who accused him of laxity in the face of the riots, he also lashed out more enthusiastically for several days “violence, fires and looting.”
The Democratic candidate is ahead of Trump in average national polls, but the gap is narrowing in major states.
Meanwhile, Biden’s campaign announced that the Democratic nominee had raised $ 364.5 million in campaign donations in August, breaking the previous monthly record, despite the majority of his campaign being conducted online.
His campaign team said Biden raised $ 364.5 million in August, of which $ 205 million was online.
Biden thanked his campaign team, explaining that “57 percent of this money came from online donations from people like you who paid five or ten dollars or twenty dollars.” He believed that this makes August “the best month for Internet fundraising in American political history.”
The previous record was set by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when they raised about $ 200 million in September 2008.
Biden, however, asked his supporters to “keep breaking records if we want to have a chance to win” the election.
