Only after his campaign “misjudged how important it was to the American people” did Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden finally condemn the ongoing violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and many other cities across the country.
President of Maslansky & Partners, Lee Carter, told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday, “I think it’s important that we take note of this shift on the violence, because it’s really really important to the American people, and I think that his campaign might have misjudged how important it was to the American people and what it meant.”
Outrage over the violence and a storm of headlines forced Biden and other Democrats to address the issue.
The former vice president shared a video message on Twitter denying all responsibility for the violence but still expressed his support for the peaceful protests.
Biden said, “You know, as I said after George Floyd’s murder, protesting brutality is a right and absolutely necessary. But burning down communities is not protest- it’s needless violence, violence that endangers lives, violence that guts businesses and shutters businesses that serve the community. That’s wrong.”
Once again, a Black man — Jacob Blake — was shot by the police. In front of his children. It makes me sick.
Is this the country we want to be?
Needless violence won’t heal us. We need to end the violence — and peacefully come together to demand justice. pic.twitter.com/WdNqrxA3PK
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 26, 2020
Up until this point, the Democrats’ attitude toward the matter was “if you were concerned about violence if you’re concerned about law and order, that also meant that you did not support Black Lives Matter.”
Carter said, “I think that they’re not mutually exclusive and that’s something he’s [Biden] realized and recognized.”
She added that the issue of violence has become an “absolute essential” part of the presidential bid and said, “He has to address the concern of the American people, which is absolutely about individual personal safety.”
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