Posted on 11/20/2021 3:14:37 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Biden was already facing sliding poll numbers with an electorate worn down by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing inflation. Now, the president finds himself caught between outraged Democrats — some of whom were already stewing over Biden’s inability to land police reform and voting rights legislation — and Republicans looking to use the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide over matters of grievance and race.
“This is one of the last things Biden wants to be engaging in at this moment as he tries to finish up the big Build Back Better bill and get that across the finish line through the Senate,” said Christopher Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. “Race and Kyle Rittenhouse is not the space where he wants or needs to be going deep right now.”
The acquittal of Rittenhouse has touched off new conversations about racial justice, vigilantism and policing in America.
Even before the verdict, Biden had been facing increased pressure from some Democrats over the lack of progress on passing voting rights and police reform legislation.
At the same, civil rights leaders have expressed frustration that Biden has not used the power of the bully pulpit more to push for a broad police reform bill named after George Floyd, the Black Minneapolis man whose killing last year by police touched off protests around the U.S.
Speaking at an event earlier this week where he signed into law a trio of bills to increase aid to police, Biden only made passing mention of the George Floyd act, asking legislators from both parties to work together to make it law.
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Glad to hear it.
The George Floyd Act? Do they even know who this guy was?
Popcorn! Getchur hot buttuhed popcorn here!
He’ll just BS his way out of it, like he has all his life.
“...and Republicans looking to use the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide over matters of grievance and race.”
I think it has been the AP, WaPo, NYT, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN that has been using the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide. If the GOP “leadership” had its way no republican would have open his or her mouth about Rittenhouose much like the almost blanket wall of silence about the disgrace of what is going on with the January 6th political prisoners.
Advice to Biden: Twitter is not the real world
That is all
(Plus even there it’s about a 50-50 split)
Loved how MSNBC had “diverse” panel on slamming the verdict
All 5 were black
Gee, Democrats fan the flames of hatred and division, then fret when the fire starts heading their direction
Wendy Rittenhouse Puts Joe Biden On Notice: “Our lawyers are gonna handle that”
November 15, 2021
I wonder what the provisions are in the “George Floyd act” that the left wants to impose upon our country. This is the first I’ve even heard of such an act.
I wish someone close to Trump had told him this a long time ago.
Kyle and his lawyers need to be beating the Diaper Joe drum with lawsuits during the 2022/2024 elections for his refusal to support due process.
So much BS
No bias there. The contrived Kenosha riots were the only manifestation of grievance and race in this case and they were funded, organized, and executed by felons and other Democrats. What was at stake was the ability of common citizens not to have to bow down to and take a beating from a mob. This author favors the mob.
You win the internet today!
That clip makes my back hurt.
Yeah. Bingo.
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