{"id":1593279,"date":"2022-08-07T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593279"},"modified":"2022-08-07T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:48:20","slug":"trump-calls-for-national-referendum-against-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-national-referendum-against-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls for \u2018National Referendum\u2019 Against Crime"},"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\">14<\/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%2Ftrump-calls-for-national-referendum-against-crime%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=1593279&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--><p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday called for a \u201cnational referendum\u201d on Democrat policies and argued the future of the United States could be at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the\u00a0Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cpac\">CPAC<\/a>) in Dallas, the former president told an audience that GOP candidates need to control Congress and issue a referendum on the Democrats\u2019 policies, namely crime, immigration, and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to win an earth-shattering victory in 2022,\u201d Trump remarked. \u201cWinning this election needs to be a national referendum on the horrendous catastrophes radical Democrats have inflicted on our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, he said, need to \u201crestore public safety\u201d across the United States amid elevated homicide and violent crime rates nationwide. That\u2019s \u201cjob number one,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are walking outside and getting shot in the head,\u201d Trump said Saturday. \u201cBecause of the radical left\u2019s merciless crusade to dismantle law enforcement in America, our country is now a cesspool of crime that it has never been before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018This Is Not Democracy\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>He continued:\u00a0\u201cEverybody is talking about it, other countries are talking about it. You had seven people killed in Chicago this weekend. You had 68 people shot. That is not democracy, that is not what we stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Targeting so-called bail reform policies in largely Democrat-controlled states and municipalities, Trump said that \u201csavage criminals\u201d are being released from jail soon after they are arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make America safe again\u201d to \u201cmake America great again,\u201d said Trump, echoing his 2016 campaign pledge. \u201cIt is time for leaders who have the courage to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know what to do and we have to allow them to do it,\u201d the former commander-in-chief added. \u201cWe need to return to the tried-and-true strategy of a thing called stop-and-frisk. We have to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called for a \u201cnational referendum\u201d on Democrat policies and argued the future of the United States could be at stake. 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