The former vice president and human gaffe machine Joe Biden stunned crowds once again Thursday afternoon during a visit to Kenosha, WI, where he was speaking about the police shooting of accused rapist Jacob Blake.
The Democrat candidate for president’s speech was intended to focus on racial disorder but took a hard turn toward discussing imbalance in the tax code as he went off-script. Biden then halted from further outlining his tax policy, telling the crowd if he speaks for much longer “they’ll shoot me.”
Joe Biden is Kenosha says that he can’t lay out all his plans in more detail because if he goes on any longer “they’ll shoot me.” pic.twitter.com/N33k3wyuJl
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 3, 2020
The 77-year-old Democrat nominee, with a rich history of confusing and incoherent gaffes, promoted his first trip to Wisconsin during the 2020 campaign as a “moment for healing in the wake of racial unrest and violence,” according to Fox News.
Biden rubbed elbows with community leaders at Kenosha’s Grace Lutheran Church and heard their issues on subjects such as economic inequality, reestablishing trust in policing, criminal justice reorganization, and improving the educational system.
The Blake family also received a visit from Biden. Blake was the 29-year-old alleged rapist and kidnapper who was shot by police last month after reportedly resisting arrest and ignoring the commands of law enforcement. He is thought to have been reaching into his car to retrieve a knife on the floor of the vehicle when police fired at him. His arrest sparked a new round of aggressive demonstrations and violent riots locally, as well as across the country, by far-left groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr., has been criticized for past social media posts which appear to contain anti-Semitic tropes, frequently referring to white people as “crackers” and “pinks” or “pink toes,” anti-Christian sentiments, and calling women “hoes.” One such post read, “Fresh out of Facebook penitentiary I say fuck the white man.”
A post from 2019 captioned a graphic that said “white Jesus exposed as the biggest fraud unleashed on the planet.” He also wrote, “Crackers have never told the truth diabolical Liars.” Biden met with Jacob Blake Sr. during his visit.
President Trump also traveled to Wisconsin this week but did not hold an audience with Blake’s family. Trump focused his message on standing behind police and the reconstruction of businesses that have been destroyed by rioters.
Trump said during his visit to Kenosha that the city had “been ravaged by anti-police and anti-American riots” and swore to always stand behind law enforcement.
“To stop the political violence, we must also confront the radical ideology that includes this violence,” Trump told the crowd. “Reckless, far-left politicians continue to push the destructive message that our nation and our law enforcement are oppressive or racist.”
Biden expressed that he was there to look for common ground that he claims Trump is unable to find with assurances of “law and order.” He also accused Trump of being unable to recognize racism in the U.S.
“I can’t say if tomorrow God made me president, I can’t guarantee you everything gets solved in four years,” Biden told the crowd. “It would be a whole better, we’d get a whole lot further down the road” if the president loses reelection, he said.
“There’s certain things worth losing over,” he said, “and this is something worth losing over if you have to — but we’re not going to lose.”
According to a new Emerson poll, after months of violence from progressive groups, President Trump is surging in approval ratings among black voters. The latest data indicate Trump is at 35 percent approval with black voters and 38 percent with Hispanics.
“If you add in Asian voters at 28 percent approval,” said Emerson’s director of polling Spencer Kimball, “our number is very close to the new Marist poll,” which finds Trump’s approval at 33 percent among nonwhite voters. In 2016 the president’s approval among black voters was just 6 percent, and Trump is now leading many national polls ahead of Biden as well.
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