Democrats try to pre-empt the GOP's 'soft on crime' attacks. It may not work.

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Some Democrats in tough re-election campaigns have tried to inoculate themselves on crime ahead of the midterm elections, hoping to counter Republican ads on the issue.

"This is an economy election, but we need to have other messages beyond just 'the economy sucks, vote for us,'" said one Republican strategist involved in midterm races who requested anonymity to candidly discuss strategy."There is a sense the economy is baked in. [Crime] is that next avenue."

He is one of the Democrats who ran his own ad touting support for law enforcement early in the campaign. In it, a sheriff“If you were smart about this, you understood what the hits might be,” said Matt Corridoni, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “And your average Democrat is not anti-cop, so it was very easy for them to get ahead of it and be pro-active.

"More candidates should take a page out of President Biden’s playbook and make it very clear that they do not support defunding the police, because that’s a slogan that, whether it’s accurate or not, has caught wind," said Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist and former Biden aide. That reflects a tacit acknowledgment of what some in the party see as a long-term trust deficit on public safety that is hard, if not impossible, to fix with a few clever ads. Compounding the problem for Democrats: Big-dollar donors like to see hard-hitting ads that attack Republicans rather than the kind of positive spots that can build credibility for the Democratic Party and its candidates on an issue such as policing.

 

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jonallendc Please explain how this isn't an opinion piece and just talking points for Republicans...I'll wait.

'an issue that has bedeviled Democrats since the summer of protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020' No, bedeviled Democrats since 1988 & Willie Horton. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Vote These defund the police out your dead

Get a dictionary and learn it

So the push you sent headlines “COVID kills more R’s than Democrats”, which can and will be weaponized. MJT is already saying that Dems are murdering R’s. You couldn’t say “COVID kills more unvaxed people” or “Vaccine Skeptics”.

Beggs the question, are they changing there position to get reelected or does their record show they've always supported law enforcement? Should be easy enough to verify.

GOP tough on crime? what about abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, inciting the Jan. 6 invasion or mishandling classified documents. then there's GOP Texas AG Ken Paxton fleeing home from a subpoena. GOP's 'tough of crime' mantra is laughable.

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