WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, have contrasting views and records on criminal justice and the U.S. racial divide, issues that have risen in prominence in the 2020 election. Here is a look at their stances and backgrounds: RACE AND RHETORIC Biden has said he was motivated to run for president by Trump’s comments that "both sides" were to blame for violence between white supremacists and left-wing counterprotesters at a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, comments that fit into what critics see as a pattern of race-baiting by Trump. The president has very few Black Americans among his advisers and White House staff. Biden, who was vice president for the first African-American U.S. president, Barack Obama, has pledged that his Cabinet, judicial appointments and running mate will reflect the country’s diversity. POLICING Trump has responded to the nationwide protests over the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapoli …
