“President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage communities should the former vice president win the White House in November” Aamer Madhani writes for the AP.
“Left unsaid: A recent surge in violent crime in several American cities has happened on his watch.”
“‘Irony is way down the list of things that President Trump worries about,’ said Robert Spitzer, a political scientist at the State University of New York College at Cortland whose research focuses on gun politics and the American presidency. ‘He’s turning to the old playbook — appeal to the fears of Americans and then associate those fears with the Democratic Party, specifically Joe Biden.'”