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Trump plays to white base in Kenosha
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US President Donald Trump defied requests to stay away and visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, not to urge racial healing after a white officer shot a black man in the back but to express support for law enforcement in a city rocked by civil unrest.
With the United States polarized over issues of racial injustice and police use of force, Trump is appealing to his base of white supporters with a law-and-order message as opinion polls show him cutting into the lead of his Democratic rival, former vice president Joe Biden.
Meanwhile Trump has largely overlooked the racial wounds caused by police use of force and played down the more than 180,000 US deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republican president also threatened to send more federal officers into cities governed by Democratic mayors even if local officials objected, saying, 鈥淎t some point ... we鈥檒l just have to do it ourselves.鈥
Trump did not visit Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a white police officer fired at his back seven times on August 23. He did not meet Blake鈥檚 family either, but did meet with his mother鈥檚 pastors.
He promised instead to rebuild Kenosha and provide more federal spending to Wisconsin, a political battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016 and badly needs to keep in his column as he seeks re-election on November 3.
His election opponent, Biden, has accused Trump of stoking violence with his rhetoric. Biden鈥檚 campaign on Tuesday seized on Trump鈥檚 trip to Kenosha as it accused his administration of seeing 鈥渧iolence as a winning electoral strategy.鈥
The president visited a burned-out furniture store that was destroyed in the upheaval and then a makeshift command center to praise National Guard troops who were called in to reinforce local police after several nights of peaceful protests gave way to looting, arson and gunfire.
鈥淭hese are not acts of peaceful protest, but really domestic terror,鈥 Trump told local business leaders in a high school gym.
Peaceful demonstrators have complained that violent agitators, often white, have hijacked their protests with property damage. Many have also sharply criticized the police, saying the US needs to rethink its law enforcement practices.
鈥淭o stop the political violence, we must also confront the radical ideology. ... We have to condemn the dangerous anti-police rhetoric,鈥 Trump said.
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