{"id":1259071,"date":"2022-01-31T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259071"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:39:19","slug":"psaki-dodges-on-why-americans-feel-unsafe-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-on-why-americans-feel-unsafe-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges On Why Americans Feel Unsafe Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-dodges-on-why-americans-feel-unsafe-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged a question about the nationwide crime surge during a press briefing Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Daily Caller White House correspondent Shelby Talcott pointed to President Joe Biden\u2019s low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/archive\/biden_on_the_issues\/rating_president_biden_on_the_issues_dec28\">approval numbers on crime<\/a> and asked Psaki if this was an indication to the administration that \u201cDemocrats are out of touch when it comes to criminal justice and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki answered by immediately bringing up former President Trump, claiming there was \u201ca record jump in murders under the former president\u201d and the FBI has not released new crime data. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/pelosi-no-idea-americas-increase-crime-coming-from\/\">(<strong>RELATED: Pelosi Says She Has No Idea Where America\u2019s Increase In Crime Is Coming From)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cOur view is that instead of turning this into a political football, we need to be focused \u2026 on reducing crime and keeping our communities safe. And that\u2019s why he\u2019s been a long-time advocate for more accountable community policing,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>She then listed several actions Biden has taken against \u201crogue gun dealers\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/department-of-justice-atf-leaked-document-ban-ghost-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ghost guns<\/a>. \u201cHis objective is to work with Democrats, Republicans, mayors, and local leaders to work to address what we\u2019ve seen as increases in crime in some areas,\u201d the press secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki closed her response by again implying the rise in crime originated during the Trump administration. \u201cI would just note that, nationwide, there has been an increases (sic) in crime over the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel pointed out Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/nearly-year-black-people-arent-sold-biden-havent-either-rcna9786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden\u2019s approval among black Americans<\/a> has slipped during the crime wave.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden\u2019s approval rating among Black Americans has dropped by 20 points since April.<\/p>\n<p>Crime has surged, inflation is rampant, and Biden has supported vaccine mandates that ban hundreds of thousands of Black Americans from restaurants and other indoor spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPChairwoman\/status\/1487902442041876481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/31\/jen-psaki-dumbfounded-republican-focus-crime-wave-pod-save-america-podcast\/\">expressed confusion<\/a> about the attention the crime wave is garnering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AH3k5v5MPUM&amp;t=1906s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during an interview<\/a> on the \u201cPod Save America\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>As of Jan. 31, Biden is facing a 41% overall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/biden_administration\/biden_approval_index_history\">approval rating<\/a>, according to Rasmussen Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged a question about the nationwide crime surge during a press briefing Monday.Senior Daily Caller White House correspondent Shelby Talcott pointed to President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}