Rioting amid demonstrations for racial justice may have helped Donald Trump
Joe Biden’s vote share in Kenosha, Wisconsin was conspicuously low
AS PROTESTERS FILLED American streets last year to decry the killing of George Floyd, Joe Biden had reason to feel nervous. Four days before Floyd’s death, Omar Wasow, an academic, published a paper claiming that violent racial-justice demonstrations following the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 had set off a backlash. Vote shares for Richard Nixon, who ran for president promising “law and order”, were 1.5-7.9 percentage points higher in mostly white areas near violent protests than in comparable ones that were farther away.
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