Trump's 'law and order' campaign echoes Richard Nixon's in 1968. But Nixon was the challenger.
With protests erupting across the country, President Trump is ripping a page from Richard Nixon's playbook, claiming to stand for"law and order" and calling out to the"silent majority" that he hopes will grant him a second term.
"It's not crime that's the key issue," said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster."It's really racial relations." The overlapping crises have left Trump grappling for something to stop his slide in the polls, where he's currently trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Rather than heed renewed calls for police reform, he's tried to project images of strength to his core base of white supporters.
Between the demonstrations, the coronavirus and the economy, the presidential race is going to hinge on the question of"who is going to be best to bring us back to normalcy," said Jeff Roe, a Republican strategist. A former vice president and U.S. senator from California, Nixon ran campaign advertisements in 1968 with scenes of violence and declaring"we shall have order in the United States." Even though the videos showed white protesters, many viewed them as as a thinly veiled attempt to exploit racial animosities at the time.
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