Pollster Stanley Greenberg, who worked for former President Bill Clinton, blasted Democrats for being \u201cout of touch\u201d and \u201cindefensibly elitist\u201d on crime in the American Prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was asked repeatedly by colleagues and campaigning Democrats, \u2018What should we be saying on crime and when I\u2019m attacked for \u2018defunding the police\u2019?\u2019\u201d Greenberg wrote in the article<\/a> published Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo be honest, Democrats were in such terrible shape on crime at this late point, I said, speak as little as possible or mumble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n American voters are focused on crime as major cities have all suffered over the past two years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n New York City and Philadelphia saw crime rates increase from 2021, a year in which six major cities reported record-high levels of violent crime. A Trafalgar poll<\/a> from September noted that 67.9% of respondents felt less safe than they did two years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Only 37% of respondents approved of President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of crime in a Fox News poll<\/a>, while 39% approved in Economist\/YouGov<\/a> and Harvard\/Harris<\/a> polls and his approval rating on crime dropped to 33% in a Monmouth poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dem pollster Stanley Greenberg \u2014-> How Democrats Mishandled Crime https:\/\/t.co\/fQexMurARN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Greenberg accused former President Donald Trump of starting a \u201crace war\u201d in the 2020 election, but said that defeating Trump came with a cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe battle to defeat Trump\u2019s race war, however, blinded many from seeing the priorities and needs of working-class African American, Hispanic, and Asian American voters. Those were the voters who pulled back from their historic support for Democrats,\u201d Greenberg wrote. \u201cTo be honest, many assumed that battling long-standing racial inequities would be their top priority. But that assumption becomes indefensibly elitist when it turns out these voters were much more focused on the economy, corporate power, and crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greenberg noted that Democrats failed to distance themselves enough from calls to \u201cdefund the police\u201d that came from people like Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Cori Bush of Missouri, left-wing members of the House of Representatives often called \u201cThe Squad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith Democrats so out of touch on crime and the police, just discussing crime cost Democrats,\u201d Greenberg wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pollster Stanley Greenberg, who worked for former President Bill Clinton, blasted Democrats for being \u201cout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?resize=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?resize=269%2C187&ssl=1",269,187,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"Featured Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Featured Stories","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-20.jpg?fit=269%2C187&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-1EH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n