Kenosha Bolsters Trump's Chances of Winning Wisconsin

"There's no doubt it's playing into [President Donald] Trump's hands," Paul Soglin, who served as mayor of Madison, on and off, for more than two decades, is quoted by Politico.

"There's a significant number of undecided voters who are not ideological, and they can move very easily from Republican to the Democratic column and back again. They are, in effect, the people who decide elections. And they are very distraught about both the horrendous carnage created by police officers in murdering African Americans, and ... for the safety of their communities."

The violence was sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police.

And Politico noted that Democrats worry that the rioting is feeding Trump's message that this is how America would look like under the radical left. Trump had announced on Wednesday he would send in the National Guard.

Kirk Ingram, a Democrat who has a massage therapy business in Kenosha, said the violent images of his city were boosting Trump's message.