With the election just two months away, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are leaving no stone unturned in a bid to prove they are better than their opponent. This was evident on Monday as both took jabs at each other just hours apart and from different stages, accusing one another of failing to handle the still raging protests in two U.S. cities.
The clash revolved around asking the voters a simple question, whether they feel in Trump's America, or they think Biden's America will be safer. With both DNC, as well as RNC conventions coming to an end, and the final post-Labor Day leg of the race just a week away, the day was the start of an urgent phase of the campaign.
Biden and Trump pushed for different visions of how to confront an inflection point on race and the law enforcement power. The former vice president went first, taking the stage for a major speech in Pittsburgh.
During his address, Biden accused Trump's America of failing to handle the coronavirus pandemic, while portraying the president as so desperate to get re-elected that he is using fear and hatred as a campaign strategy. “He keeps telling us if he were president you would feel safe," Biden said before pointing that he is the president at the moment and sarcastically added he probably doesn't know that he is the president.
He went on to ask voters if they thought there will be less violence in the country if Donald Trump is re-elected. Trump has been suggesting that Biden was being part of a radical movement to sow tumult in America, but the former veep accused Trump of fanning violence with his tweets, including some that seemed to support the riots on the streets, POLITICO reported.
Biden spoke on the evening before Trump's Tuesday trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protestors have taken to the streets after the shooting of Jacob Blake last week. Paying no heed to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' advice to reconsider his decision, Trump is planning to meet the law enforcement officials in the city.
Trump has taken credit for bringing calm to the city, while it was Evers who called the National Guard initially. Some local Democrats accuse Biden of taking too much time to denounce the violence, and they think that Trump's law-and-order message might influence swing voters who want this mayhem to end.