Former Democratic White House aide Paul Begala says that “white liberals,” not poor and working class voters, were trying to defund police and that the party needed to “get out in front” of the crime issue for 2024. “Quality of life issues is what we’re going to be – what we’re going to decide the election on,” said HBO host Bill Maher, who cited increased crime rates and homelessness in Portland, Or., as reported by the Los Angeles Times, noting that it and many other big cities with rising crime were run by Democrats, reports the Daily Caller. “They need to get out in front of it,” said Begala, who was an adviser to President Bill Clinton. “I want a Democrat to stand and say some people belong in jail.”
Begala said that Bakersfield, Ca., the hometown of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, had a “much higher murder rate” than San Francisco. “Why aren’t Democrats talking about that?” Begala asked,adding that states that voted for Trump had a 40 percent higher murder rate. Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson pointed out that a number of Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to block a D.C. law that would have reduced certain criminal penalties. “For Democrats and my fellow liberals, it’s the people we supposedly care about who are the victims of crime,” Begala said. “Elon Musk is not going to get his stupid Tesla carjacked. It’s poor people, it’s working people ... “They’re the victims of crime, and by the way, if you look at all the polling and the voting, it’s those folks who are voting for more security, more safety, more and better cops. It’s the white liberals who want to defund police.”
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