Why Joe Biden Really Went to Wisconsin
Excerpt: Two days after President Trump made a mostly well-received stop in which he met with local law-enforcement officers and business owners affected by this month’s riots, the Biden campaign was left with no choice. He needed to visit or risk conceding the law-and-order issue in what may well be this November’s most crucial battleground state. Wisconsin is especially precarious for Biden because of the speed with which support for this summer’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations has evaporated. In late June, the Marquette University Law School Poll — which is considered the gold standard of polling in Wisconsin — showed that 61 percent of the state’s residents supported the protests, while just 36 percent disapproved. In August’s Marquette poll, which was released two weeks before protests devolved into riots in Kenosha, support for mass demonstrations dipped 13 points, with 48 percent approval and 48 percent disapproval. 48 percent of respondents said that the protests were mostly peaceful, but 41 percent said they were mostly violent (that question was not asked in June).
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