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Biden might actually be the right person for the times
A new poll validates Biden’s claim for the Presidency
Americans feel that this country is out of control.
That view was in evidence in a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. According to that survey, which was conducted entirely after the death of George Floyd and the start of the recent protests in response, 80 percent of Americans feel that the country is out of control.
More tellingly, and at least in part why Donald Trump’s calls for law and order have backfired, 59 percent of voters blame the police for this situation. In contrast, only 27 percent believe the protests are a concern. In other words, the margin of those who blame the police for our current status outnumber those who blame the protesters — even with the recent violence — by more than a two-to-one margin.
What’s more, this view is not simply the province of Black people, Latinos and White liberals. According to the poll, 54 percent of White people believe the police are to blame for this chaos. That number includes large swaths of independent and moderate voters the President needs to earn re-election.
Obviously, there is something different about these protests. Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, people viewed the…
