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Biden, Trump take opposing stands: One visits George Floyd family; the other meets with police
Evan Halper, Janet Hook 8 hrs ago
As Joe Biden stood with the family of George Floyd on Monday in demanding police accountability, President Trump also made clear where he stands, meeting with law enforcement officers and accusing Biden of undermining public safety.
Much of the nation is also taking a position, and a raft of recent polls indicate that it is not with Trump. The president finds himself with some of his lowest approval ratings since moving to the White House, facing an electorate that has swung sharply toward the belief that racism remains prevalent in America's police departments — a view Trump said he rejects.
“Our police have been letting us live in peace, and we want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there, and sometimes we’ll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently, but I say 99.9 — let’s go with 99% of them — great, great people, and they’ve done jobs that are record-setting,” Trump said during a meeting Monday with police officials.
Biden, by contrast, spent an hour in Houston in a private meeting sharing the grief of the family of Floyd, the black man choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer two weeks ago — a videotaped killing that set off a wave of nationwide protest. Floyd's funeral is planned for tomorrow.
“He listened, heard their pain and shared in their woe," Benjamin Crump, the family's lawyer said in a statement on Twitter. “That compassion meant the world to this grieving family."
The contrasting scenes reinforced the messages of the two campaigns.
For the African American and liberal white voters on whom Democrats depend, Floyd's killing has pushed far-reaching change in the nation's police high on the national agenda.
By contrast, Trump's conservative white followers consistently tell pollsters they do not believe police systemically treat African Americans unfairly.
In the aftermath of Floyd's death, public opinion has shifted strongly against that view. About two-thirds of Americans say black and white people do not receive equal treatment from the police, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted as protests erupted. That's up sharply from 38% in a 2015 YouGov survey. Several other recent polls have shown similar shifts.
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