Biden accuses Trump of "fomenting violence for years" in the United States

Presidential candidate Joe Biden arrives in New Castle this Monday.Carolyn Kaster / AP

The spiral of violence in the mobilizations against racism in various cities of the United States has put Democratic candidate Joe Biden in trouble.

President Donald Trump has managed to divert the focus of the pandemic and unemployment towards the riots and has worked to accuse him, without basis, of collusion with looters.

The electoral lead of the former Obama-era vice president in Wisconsin, the state that has suffered the latest unrest, has narrowed and support for the

movement

has declined.

Biden counterattacked on Monday with harsh statements denouncing the destruction and pointing to Trump for stirring up hatred.

“This president long ago resigned from any moral leadership in this country.

It cannot stop the violence because it has fomented it for years, ”said Biden from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in one of the few electoral events that he has carried out in person as a precaution against the coronavirus crisis.

"Does anyone think there will be less violence in the United States if Trump is re-elected?", Stressed the Democratic candidate.

Biden reacted to days of siege by the Republican president, who has blatantly accused him of ignoring the serious riots in cities such as Minneapolis (Minnesota), Portland (Oregon) or Kenosha (Wisconsin).

The two deaths in the past week - a protester at the hands of a white teenager sympathizing with the police in Kenosha and another male member of an ultra group in Portland, according to the Associated Press - have increased pressure on the Democratic candidate.

Biden had previously rejected the violent spiral of protests, since the first riots this summer following the death of George Floyd in a brutal police arrest, the spigot that ignited this great wave of mobilizations.

Last Wednesday, for example, he affirmed that burning communities is not protesting.

"It is unnecessary violence, that puts lives in danger, that forces to close businesses that serve that community, it is wrong," he declared.

The democrat, however, has not managed to make that the message that gets through his speech, but rather the emphasis on denouncing the structural racism of the country.

The issue did not appear at the party's national convention either, when it was the highlight of the Republican conclave, so the president takes the opportunity to accuse Biden of collusion.

“Slow Joe Biden when he goes to criticize anarchists, thugs and agitators in the Antifa [movement]?

When is he going to suggest bringing the National Guard to Democratic cities and states that are poorly managed and infested with crime?

Remember, he can't lose the super progressive vote for crazy Bernie [Sanders], "Trump wrote Sunday night on his Twitter account.

The cards have been on the table since last week, when the Republican national convention was held to crown him as a candidate for reelection.

The president constantly associates Biden, a Democrat who embodies the moderate side of the Party, with a leftist figure like Bernie Sanders, who lost the primaries against the former vice president of the Obama Administration.

In addition, he blames the local authorities in those cities, who are Democrats, for not doing enough to stop the violence and allow him to deploy federal agents.

He puts it as an example of what a Biden government would be like.