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A trap for Baiden, an opportunity for Trump: Racial tensions could decide the election

Both candidates are targeting the floating voices, and the tension between blacks and whites could tip the scales.

According to recent polls, the Republican president's one-dimensional strategy, which condemns only demonstration violence and not racism, is more beneficial to him than the more complex stance of his Democratic opponent.

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Eitan Gilboa

Friday, 04 September 2020, 21:38

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In the video: Trump visits Wisconsin (Photo: Reuters, Edited by Tal Reznik)

Interracial tensions in the United States are evolving into an issue that could decide the upcoming presidential election.

The key is in the hands of the "floating voice", those who are still undecided and do not know whether to stay at home or who to choose.

The attitudes of President Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden towards the crisis of relations between whites and blacks are intended to affect the undecided, and there are significant differences in their attitude to the explosive issue.

The interracial relationship crisis has two aspects.

The racist and violent attitude of white police towards black men, and the violent protests against this attitude.

For centuries white cops have seen a black man who goes to hell as a criminal, robber or dangerous rapist who holds a hot or cold weapon and intends to attack them.

This is why they are in a hurry to pull the trigger and kill innocent and unarmed people.

Reduces the gap from Biden.

Trump on tour in Kanusha, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

The second aspect of the current tension is found in the mass demonstrations and protests against the horrific death strangled by the black George Floyd by a white policeman in Minneapolis.

The killing ignited demonstrations of millions across the United States.

Another and deeper reason for the protests and demonstrations was the particularly severe damage of the corona plague to blacks both on the health and economic side.

Blacks are much poorer than whites, receive few health services if at all and are the first to be ejected from the labor market.

Further damage to the blacks added fuel to the fire which refused to fade.

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, a white police officer fired seven shots at the back of Jacob Blake in front of his children sitting in the back seat of his car.

Miraculously he survived death, but would probably be paralyzed from head to toe.

Karl Rittenhaus, a 17-year-old white boy, came to town and killed two protesters against Blake's injury on a dubious claim of self-defense.

In cities like Portland, Oregon, the protest did not stop for a moment, and recently, in a clash between protesters from both camps, a Trump supporter was killed.

Biden's trap

Some of the protesters demanded an end to the funding of the police operation, its closure and the dismissal of the police - an extreme and unreasonable demand.

Some of the demonstrations turned violent.

Protesters in wealthy cities like New York broke into stores, looted their contents, burned cars, set fire to homes and destroyed much property.

The appeals of the heads of the black public and the families of the victims did not help to stop the vandalism and violence that only harmed the achievement of the just goals of the protest.

Biden has fallen into the trap.

On the one hand, to win the election he needs the black votes and the other minorities who in the previous election did not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, stayed home and thus helped Trump win.

Condemnation of the riots can be interpreted by blacks as condemnation of the whole protest.

On the other hand, softer condemnation can deter boys who are afraid of riots.

Too harsh a condemnation may keep black voters away.

Biden in speech in Pennsylvania (Photo: Reuters)

Biden chose to walk between the drops.

He blatantly condemned racism and lax vandalism.

During the Democratic convention Biden and his associates warned that if Trump was elected to a second term, interracial tensions would only worsen, while their victory would lead to national reconciliation and a widespread and sustained effort to uproot racism from its deep roots.

Biden hopes this position will bring blacks to the polls and support his candidacy.

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Condemnation for good

Trump has not had such a dilemma.

He ignored racism and referred only to riots.

He harshly condemned the violence, vandalism and looting, defended the police and during the Republican Conference warned that if Biden chooses, the violent riots will continue and escalate.

He presented himself as the last barrier between anarchy and law and order.

To beat Biden, Trump needs the voices of whites - suburban, middle-class and educated.

Trump hopes that the condemnation of the rioters will transfer some of the votes of these groups to him.

The differences between the candidates were evident not only in speech but also in symbolic gestures.

Biden traveled to George Floyd's funeral in Houston, met with his family and identified with their pain.

Trump drove to Kanusha, toured the main street where most of the shops and buildings were damaged, met with damaged property owners, praised the cops, blamed the Democrats who control the city, and said Rittenhouse shot the protesters in self-defense.

Trump traveled to Kanusha mainly because he needed to win it.

In the 2016 election, he defeated Clinton in it.

But the message he conveyed there is also intended for white skeptics in other swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.

Biden condemned Trump's strategy of cultivating fear of blacks among whites and emphasizing the need for law and order.

Trump accuses Biden and Democrats of protecting rioters.

Given the narrowing of the gap in the polls between the two candidates, Trump's one-dimensional strategy seems more convincing than Biden's more complex one.

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