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In Michigan, the riots that have rocked some cities across the country have also left Angela Daniels, 49, anxious and unstable, though she leans toward the opposite political conclusion.
“We need stability and we don’t have it now,” said Daniels, a psychotherapist in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit. “That’s why I tend to lean towards Biden.”
As Trump increasingly uses protests as a wedge issue, election analysts from both parties are taking a second look at a Marquette Law School poll of Wisconsin voters released in August. The proportion of Wisconsin voters who expressed support for the protest movement that emerged after George Floyd’s death fell to 48 percent, from 61 percent in June.
Still, a majority of Wisconsin voters said they didn’t like Trump’s handling of the protests. Fifty-eight disapproved of it, while only 32 percent approved, the poll showed. And Trump saw no improvement in his favorability rating after the Republican National Convention, according to an ABC News / Ipsos poll released Sunday.
Biden, who for years ran as a “tough on crime” Democrat, won the Democratic primary as an unapologetic moderate, defeating his main Democratic Socialist opponent, Bernie Sanders. Throughout the summer and during their convention, Republicans sought to paint Biden as soft on crime and overly punitive, a strategy that has yet to be shown can define the Democrat to Trump’s advantage.
“They’ve been throwing all kinds of things at Joe Biden from the beginning,” said Rep. Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat. “It’s just a big, confusing message.”
Kathleen Gray, Maggie Haberman, Thomas Kaplan, Jonathan Martin, Adam Nagourney and Giovanni Russonello contributed reporting.
