convention, no speaker mentioned Jacob Blake, a Black man who had been shot in the back on Sunday by police officers in Kenosha, Wis., after trying to break up a fight. Nor did anyone mention, say, the country’s gaping racial wealth gap, or the disproportionate impact of pollution on Black communities. “The other party is attacking the very principles on which our nation was founded,” he said, accusing Democrats of trying to “cancel” the nation’s founders. It’s a message rife with racial undertones, and we’re likely to hear a lot more of it as the Republican convention continues this week. They were more likely to name the economy (51 percent), uniting the country (43 percent), strong leadership (34 percent), health care (29 percent) and the coronavirus (27 percent).

Source: New York Times August 25, 2020 22:52 UTC