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 normal individuals within the metropolis who don’t really feel protected.
A co-panelist then jumps in to say that that is very very similar to final 12 months, when Democrats saved insisting that the financial system was nice, which didn’t match with individuals’s emotions.
Partial transcript through Curtis Houck on Twitter/X:
“What’s hanging is that nationwide Democrats should not following Mayor Bowser’s lead on this, and that nationwide Democrats have been insisting, ‘simply have a look at the statistics. We’ve 30 12 months, 30 12 months low, you already know, violent crime’…I’ve talked to Democrat strategists in the present day that assume that, you already know, nationwide Democrats saying, ‘have a look at the statistics’ is form of a tone deaf strategy to react.”
“And it’s very a lot — isn’t this the very same downside that Democrats had final 12 months? ‘Take a look at the statistics! We promise you the financial system is nice’ whereas individuals are going, ‘it doesn’t really feel nice to me.’ That seems like plenty of this dialog round crime that you may level to statistics all day lengthy that say, ‘hey, D.C. is safer this 12 months than it was final 12 months,’ however do individuals really feel protected? 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 of extraordinary.”
Watch the clip:
.@AlexThomp: “What’s hanging is that nationwide Democrats should not following Mayor Bowser’s lead on this, and that nationwide Democrats have been insisting, ‘simply have a look at the statistics. We’ve 30 12 months, 30 12 months low, you already know, 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 problem.
