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The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

Will the US campus protests harm Biden – and benefit Trump?

Man in suit speaks in front of microphone
Biden speaks from the White House about the campus protests sweeping the US. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

At the height of the tensions on US campuses this week, with Republicans gleefully seizing on student unrest as an election issue that could propel Donald Trump back into the White House, Joe Biden tried to steer a middle path.

Weighing the democratic right to peaceful protest and the political necessity to stem disruption, Biden declared that “order must prevail”.

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