Alex Thompson of Axios took aside the brand new argument from Democrats that crime in Washington, DC is down, noting that their strategy is tone deaf.
He says that whereas Democrats level to statistics, their numbers don’t match the sensation of standard folks within the metropolis who don’t really feel secure.
A co-panelist then jumps in to say that that is very very like final yr, when Democrats saved insisting that the economic system was nice, which didn’t match with folks’s emotions.
Partial transcript by way of Curtis Houck on Twitter/X:
“What’s placing is that nationwide Democrats will not be following Mayor Bowser’s lead on this, and that nationwide Democrats have been insisting, ‘simply take a look at the statistics. We’ve got 30 yr, 30 yr low, you recognize, violent crime’…I’ve talked to Democrat strategists at this time that suppose that, you recognize, nationwide Democrats saying, ‘take a look at the statistics’ is type of a tone deaf method to react.”
“And it’s very a lot — isn’t this the very same drawback that Democrats had final yr? ‘Take a look at the statistics! We promise you the economic system is nice’ whereas individuals are going, ‘it doesn’t really feel nice to me.’ That appears like a whole lot of this dialog round crime that you may level to statistics all day lengthy that say, ‘hey, D.C. is safer this yr than it was final yr,’ however do folks really feel secure? Backside line, in the event that they don’t, they might be extra okay with one thing that might in any other case be thought-about extraordinary.”
Watch the clip:
.@AlexThomp: “What’s placing is that nationwide Democrats will not be following Mayor Bowser’s lead on this, and that nationwide Democrats have been insisting, ‘simply take a look at the statistics. We’ve got 30 yr, 30 yr low, you recognize, violent crime’…I’ve talked to Democrat strategists… pic.twitter.com/XaLP9GvwBd
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 11, 2025
Democrats are as soon as once more hurting their very own trigger just by taking a reflexively anti-Trump view on a difficulty.
