{"id":159120,"date":"2020-09-04T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/04\/will-trumps-law-and-order-gamble-pay-off-podcast\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T02:00:12","slug":"will-trumps-law-and-order-gamble-pay-off-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159120","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump\u2019s law and order gamble pay off? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s US Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, discusses Donald Trump\u2019s law and order gamble on the election, and how it is impacting on Democratic candidate Joe Biden\u2019s campaign The Guardian\u2019s US Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, talks to Anushka Asthana about Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign, which is pushing a theme of law and order, while Democratic nominee Joe Biden has sought to bring Covid-19 to the fore. The US now has more than 6m coronavirus infections and 185,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 16 million are out of work. Yet last month\u2019s Republican convention hailed Trump\u2019s response to the virus and implied that the pandemic was a thing of the past.Polls suggest the success of the Republican convention, and scenes of civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon, have enabled Trump to narrow the gap on Biden. Kenosha became the latest flashpoint in a long summer of unrest in America after Jacob Blake, an African American, was shot seven times in the back by police as he tried to enter his vehicle. Three nights of protests set off more than 30 fires and culminated in a 17-year-old militia supporter allegedly shooting and killing two demonstrators \u2013 an act Trump has pointedly failed to condemn. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2020\/sep\/04\/will-trumps-law-and-order-gamble-pay-off\" target=\"_blank\">Will Trump\u2019s law and order gamble pay off? \u2013 podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s US Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, discusses Donald Trump\u2019s law and order gamble on the election, and how it is impacting on Democratic candidate Joe Biden\u2019s campaign The Guardian\u2019s US Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, talks to Anushka Asthana about Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}