The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood stressed how important the issue of crime will be in several key races across the country on Friday.
“It is especially a powerful issue for Republicans when their democratic opponents are particularly vulnerable on the issue of crime,” she told host Neil Cavuto on Fox Business.
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“That’s definitely the case in Pennsylvania where John Fetterman as lieutenant governor spent time on a parole board, advocated for clemency, and has publicly spoken about his support for soft-on-crime policies,” she explained. “It is a big deal in the Wisconsin Senate race, for example, not just because people around Milwaukee and other areas are concerned about the immediate effects of crime, but because the Democratic candidate in that race, Mandela Barnes, is also really vulnerable on crime. He supported the ‘defund the police’ movement. He supported this sort of radical vision of criminal justice reform.”
“Another race where it’s playing really heavily is the Oregon governor’s race where the republican candidate has the chance to become governor of Oregon for the first time in 40 years in large part because voters are fed up with what is going on in Portland. In a lot of these big marquis races, Republicans are benefiting, one, from the fact that voters are concerned about crime but, two, because a lot of the Democrats in these big races are really vulnerable on the issue,” Westwood continued.
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According to her, “It is eclipsing some of the issues that democrats are attempting to run on like abortion, and in a lot of these big races voters are consistently saying they are more concerned about crime than the things that Democrats are pushing. So that is obviously a warning sign for Democrats.”
