Democratic Presidental nominee Joe Biden met with the family of Jacob Blake at Kenosha, Wisconsin on Thursday, reported AFP.

The 77-year old Democratic nominee visited the state of Wisconsin on Thursday along with his wife, Jill Biden.

The
Democratic nominee and his wife Jill Biden were bound for Kenosha, where
Blake’s shooting sparked demonstrations that turned deadly last week.

But not
before they met at Milwaukee’s airport with several members of Blake’s family,
including his father and three siblings. Blake’s mother participated by
telephone.

The
meeting was private, and reporters and photographers accompanying Biden were
not invited inside.

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The Biden
visit, his first major trip since June due to months of coronavirus
restrictions, marks an intensification of his presidential campaign two months
before the US election against President Donald Trump.

As the
Democratic nominee visits the city at the heart of recent US protests against
racism and police brutality, is Trump barnstorming across battleground states,
pitching his “law-and-order” message and reiterating his attacks on
the integrity of mail-in voting.

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The
pandemic-induced lockdown has left Biden spending most of his time hunkered in
his Wilmington, Delaware home or delivering nearby speeches to reporters, but
that slack period appears to be coming to an end.

With the
two candidates now sprinting to Election Day on November 3, Biden has announced
his intention to return to the campaign trail in earnest for the first time
since March, when in-person campaigning was scrapped due to the coronavirus.