As opinion polls suggest that months of unrest, violence and rising crime in Democratic-controlled cities across the United States are starting to erode Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential election campaign, the party’s nominee tried a new tack this week. It seemed to have been inspired in part by Vito Corleone. In a warning reminiscent of the kind of protection rackets successful mafia bosses, real and fictional, have famously mastered, Mr Biden spoke to a small group of reporters at a rare campaign event in Pittsburgh. After some ritual denunciations of the violence perpetrated by people associated with the Black Lives Matter protests, Mr Biden then asked: “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is elected?”Roughly translated from

Source: The Times September 02, 2020 16:13 UTC