Every day until the American presidential election on November 3, Europe 1 offers a report in the United States.

This Wednesday, stopover in Kenosha in Wisconsin, where the scars of the riots this summer, following the death of Jacob Blake, are still very present.

Despite this, Joe Biden struggles to mobilize a disillusioned electorate.

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Until November 3, US election day, Europe 1 takes you to the United States with a daily report.

This Wednesday, meet in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city that has become iconic this summer with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Disgusted by the policies of Donlad Trump, the black population of this city is only feverishly mobilizing for Joe Biden

Wisconsin is also a state where the ballot will be very close.

In 2016, Donald Trump was ahead of Hillary Clinton by 23,000 votes.

Four years later, Democrat Joe Biden cannot win without the vote of the black population.

But it is far from certain.

In Kenosha, a city that became emblematic this summer with the "Black Lives Matter" movement, the city still bears the scars of the nights of riots.

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The downtown stores still caulked

It was in this city that a white policeman shot seven times in the back of a black man, Jacob Blake.

The riots that followed left two dead.

Dozens of charred car wrecks are still visible in the parking lots.

Almost all of the downtown stores are still caulked behind large wooden plaques covered in "Black Lives Matter" tags.

So activists try to turn this still palpable anger into a vote.

This is the case with Greg whose neighborhood association has stepped up operations to register black residents on the electoral rolls, not always successfully, he admits.

"I see a lot of old people saying to me 'you know what? I won't go this time. I always voted, I protested, but look what it led to'. George Floyd s' got killed in Minnesota, Jacob Blake got shot right here! 30% of people say, 'drop it'. And we try to persuade them: your lives matter, your vote counts! " -he.

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Energy gives way to weariness

Even among the youngest, quicker to mobilize, energy sometimes gives way to weariness.

"Voting, for me, it's no use. There won't be any change. It will always be hard to find a job, compared to the Whites. The cops are always aggressive with us. Jacob Blake got shot seven times. On it in the back, while he was just going back to his car! We had Obama, and even that, it did not change anything, so ... ", confides Derino, barely of age, and already disillusioned.

Joe Biden's "Crime Act" still remembered

It must be said that Joe Biden is not the ideal candidate either to seduce African Americans, who have never forgotten his controversial law on delinquency, the "Crime Act", passed in 1994 when he was a senator, which blew up their jail rate.

"It's a stain on his record," said Tanya McLean, another figure in the black community in Kenosha.

"But he said publicly that he regretted it", she continues before summing up her thought in one sentence: "We need Joe because we have to get Trump out."

To mobilize until the end, it organizes, two weeks before the election, several marches.

"Trump won the state by less than 30,000 votes last time. Every vote will count," insists Sheryl, a retired accountant, who will attend the event. 

The latest polls in Wisconsin put Joe Biden in the lead with a 6% lead.