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    Biden meets Blakes, seeking contrast with Trump in Kenosha

    by Evan Halper and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Sep 03, 2020 5 minutes

    KENOSHA, Wis. - Joe Biden made a rare long-distance campaign trek to this troubled Wisconsin town Thursday, on a political mission meant to highlight his compassion and to contrast sharply with the harsh "law and order" message President Donald Trump brought two days earlier.

    The Democratic presidential nominee met privately for an hour with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot seven times in the back last month by a police officer in a case that sparked days of angry protests. Biden also spoke by phone with Blake, who is partially paralyzed, at the hospital.

    Trump visited Kenosha on Tuesday but did not meet or talk by phone with the Blakes because, he said, they had wanted a lawyer present. He did not even mention Blake's name.

    Biden's afternoon visit was designed to showcase what is

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