Biden: Trump 'rooting for more violence, not less'

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday charged that President Trump is "rooting for more violence, not less" after two people were killed in Kenosha, Wis., amid turmoil following a law enforcement officer wounding 29-year-old Black man Jacob Blake.

"[Trump] views this as a political benefit to him," Biden argued in an interview on MSNBC. "He's rooting for more violence, not less. ... If we want to end where we are now, we've got to end his tenure as president."

Unrest has rocked Kenosha each night since Sunday night's incident when police officers attempted to arrest Blake while responding to a domestic dispute. After a taser failed to stop Blake, authorities say he was shot seven times by a single police officer as he walked around his vehicle, opened the door and leaned forward.

Blake's three children were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, according to his attorney. The incident was caught on cellphone video, which quickly went viral, sparking the protests and unrest.

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris, during a speech later in the day, said Blake incident was "sickening to watch, it’s all too familiar, and it must end."

Biden, in Thursday's interview, emphasized that "people have a right to be angry, people have a right to protest."

But he also stressed that "I condemn violence in any form, whether it's looting or whatever it is."

And he argued that Trump "just keeps pouring fuel on the fire."

Protesters walk past police with their arms up, late Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis., as a building burns in the background. Protests have erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake a day earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The former vice president also said he did not have "enough details to make a final judgment" in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old suspect arrested in connection to at least one of the two shooting deaths in Kenosha on Tuesday night.

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Biden also pointed to a comment made hours earlier by one of Trump's most trusted advisers, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.

During a Thursday interview on "Fox & Friends," Conway spotlighted a reported comment from a restauranteur in Wisconsin who was quoted as asking, "Are you protesters trying to get Donald Trump reelected?"

Conway then stated that "the more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best for public safety and law and order."

Biden, highlighting Conway's comments, asked, "When has the spokesperson for a president ever said anything like that, ever?"

Biden claimed that Trump is "encouraging this, he’s not diminishing this at all."

"You want to bring about some order and safety and security for people, we have to start dealing with the real problems underlying all these issues. The president never speaks to them," he added.

And repeating an argument made hours earlier by one of his top advisers, Biden noted that the unrest is occurring in "Donald Trump's America."

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Conway, in her Fox News interview, insisted that "it's not Donald Trump's watch. He's trying to get law and order restored."

In a tweet after the former vice president's interview, Conway charged it was "Too bad he peddled lies from clip deceptively edited by the crazy lazy types."

And Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh argued that "for months, Joe Biden made the political calculation that he couldn’t condemn the rioters because he cannot stand up to the radicals in charge of his party.”

Trump is expected to criticize Biden's record during his Thursday night speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

In an excerpt released by his campaign, the president will argue that the former vice president's "agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee."

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It appears Trump will pick up where Vice President Mike Pence left off in his nomination acceptance speech on Wednesday night.

Pence said Biden "didn't say one word" last week at the Democratic National Convention about the violence in American cities and then declared: “We will have law and order on the streets of this country."

And he warned that if Biden wins November’s general election, “you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”

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The emphasis by Pence, the president and his campaign on law and order comes during this summer of protest as Trump tries to win back suburban voters who supported him in 2016 but fled the GOP in the 2018 midterm elections.

According to a Fox News national poll conducted earlier this month, Biden leads the president among registered voters in the suburbs by 16 percentage points.

And the survey indicates registered voters nationwide by a 48%-42% margin trust Biden over Trump to do a better job handling policing and criminal justice.