Trump vs. Biden on George Floyd protests show why so many Republicans dislike the president

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https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-vs-biden-george-floyd-protests-show-why-so-many-ncna1222611

Within 24 hours, both of the men who have a chance of being the U.S. president come January made speeches addressing the protests and riots roiling the nation in response to the unwarranted killing of George Floyd. And the contrast in their messages couldn't have been starker.

President Donald Trump, the nominal heir to the party of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, made only a passing reference in his speech Monday evening to the outrage at Floyd's death and legitimate peaceful protests before turning his attention to his favored topic: violence. After recounting a litany of offenses he said were perpetrated by rioters, he urged governors around the county to use the National Guard to "dominate the streets" with an "overwhelming presence."

Contrast that with former Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke Tuesday morning about what America is and means, rather than just what's wrong with it. He rightly admonished, "There's no place for violence," but he also lauded the First Amendment's protection of the right to assemble and the history of American self-improvement and reinvention. He invoked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass as examples of patriots who saw the country emerge from crisis better, fairer, stronger.

If I had to boil it all down, the main difference, for me, as an anti-Trump Republican, is that the America Joe Biden describes is a place I'd like to live. Trump's ... not so much.

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Much more at the link, and it's worth sharing with any Republicans and independents you know who can be peeled away from supporting Trump.

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1. If I had to boil it all down, the main difference, for me, as an anti-Trump Republican, is that the

America Joe Biden describes is a place I'd like to live. Trump's ... not so much.

TY, hpd