GOP strategy pushes clashes over crime, race toward center of midterms - The Washington Post
Update 10/10/2022 Democrats try to pre-empt the GOP's 'soft on crime' attacks. It may not work. (nbcnews.com) The same well-intentioned, but not very smart folks who coined the worst political slogan in memory: defund the police: are now the cause of why the Democratic Party is tied up in knots over this by the same well-intentioned people. They need to sit down and think. Their actions may help elect the same partisans, Trumpsters, and the white nationalists they fear and oppose. Talk about shooting oneself in the foot.
The GOP now wants crime to be the issue in midterm swing elections. Whatever happened to abortion and inflation? They must not be polling well, so they go for their tried and true issue: Democrats are soft on crime. Democrats have an opportunity to throw the issue back on the GOP candidates for Congress and the Senate, and it is easy to see the following ads: "X GOP candidate voted against funding police and keeping weapons of war out of dangerous hands. They may talk "crime" but X candidate for Senate did (or will do) nothing to help stop it."
The GOP has a problem. In swing states most of their senate candidates voted against increased funding for cops and they also voted against the gun control legislation and supported sales of weapons of war to teenagers and opposed background checks. In suburban areas, gun control is one that favors Democrats. Republican poll: Suburban women want Congress to act on gun control - Vox
Which Republican Senators Voted for the Gun Control Bill? - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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