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#John Kasich says it’s ‘imperative’ for Biden to condemn violence in Kenosha

#John Kasich says it’s ‘imperative’ for Biden to condemn violence in Kenosha

August 26, 2020 | 3:12pm | Updated August 26, 2020 | 3:47pm

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a lifelong Republican who bucked his party last week to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, is calling on the former vice president to condemn the violence and rioting taking place amid peaceful protesters in Wisconsin.

Speaking Wednesday on CNN, the 2016 GOP presidential hopeful called it “absolutely imperative” for Biden to denounce the looting taking place in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake — the father of six shot Sunday by a Wisconsin police officer.

“Violence has no place. Martin Luther King took the beatings, the gassings, the jailings, and said, ‘We will not respond with violence,’” Kasich, a CNN contributor, told the network.

“I believe that it is absolutely essential for the Democrats to say, ‘While we support protesters, this violence is abhorrent and actually sets back the ability to get change,’” he continued.

Blake, 29, was approaching his car with his back to police officers as they were attempting to arrest him when he was shot seven times. Three of his young sons were in the back seat of the car during the shooting.

The officers were in the area responding to a fight.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, the small city where the incident took place, has become overrun with riots, looting, arson and multiple fatal shootings in the days since.

On Wednesday, President Trump said the National Guard and federal agents would be deployed to quell the unrest.

Kasich said of the situation on the ground, “Now we don’t know the full story in Wisconsin.

“There’s this news that’s coming out about perhaps a vigilante, and what we know is that there are people who show up at these protests who are there to design to disrupt and give everybody a bad name, but they have to be called out.”

The Republican former governor then turned his attention back to Biden, reiterating that the former vice president must condemn the violence overtaking the Wisconsin city.

“Joe Biden needs to be very, very strong on the fact that while protesters are okay — they’re a positive thing, they’re America — this violence needs to be deeply condemned and deeply condemned now. Sooner rather than later, in my opinion,” he said.

Kasich went on to call the unrest “a terrible thing that’s happening in our country,” adding that “there’s no excuse and no reason for anybody to look the other way when it comes to these violent acts.”

John Kasich on a golf outing with Joe Biden, Barack Obama and John Boehner in 2011.
John Kasich (from left) on a golf outing with John Boehner, Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2011AP

“I just hold up somebody like Martin Luther King who said, ‘If you return violence for violence, you lose,’ and I agree with him.”

Biden released a statement Monday denouncing Blake’s shooting, but has not yet personally commented on the unrest.

Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders released a statement condemning the violence on Tuesday.

“As Joe Biden said in the aftermath of George Floyd’s horrific murder: Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response.

“But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not,” she said.

The Biden campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

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