Kenosha’s Upheaval Jolts Swing-State Politics for Trump and Biden
- Wisconsin shooting focuses voters on racial justice, violence
- Pence condemned rioters without mentioning the shooting victim
Protesters take to the streets in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 26.
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When Donald Trump takes the stage at the Republican convention Thursday night, the president will have a fresh example of strife to point to in making his case that people won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America -- this time in Wisconsin, a state that could decide the election.
The shooting of a Black man multiple times in the back by police in the southern Wisconsin town of Kenosha has outraged both minority and White communities in Wisconsin and across the country, with professional sports leagues canceling games after athletes refused to play out of solidarity with the protesters.