{"id":1612806,"date":"2022-08-18T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612806"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:42:58","slug":"exclusive-republican-governors-to-release-video-slamming-dems-for-being-soft-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-republican-governors-to-release-video-slamming-dems-for-being-soft-on-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Republican Governors To Release Video Slamming Dems For Being Soft On 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\">26<\/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%2Fexclusive-republican-governors-to-release-video-slamming-dems-for-being-soft-on-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=1612806&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot_Greg-Abbott_The-RGA_Youtube-e1660830738574.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Republican Governors Association (RGA) will launch a video Thursday highlighting Republican governors\u2019 efforts to combat rises in crime across the U.S. and support law enforcement as Democrats have been supporting soft-on-crime policies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lX7amb9xTCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>, first obtained by the Daily Caller, is the third in a series titled Red State Recovery. This video focuses specifically on crime and features Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. The Republican Governors hammer Democrats in the video for wanting to defund the police and mention the spike in crime in cities run by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The other two videos in the RGA\u2019s Red State Recovery series were focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPGovs\/status\/1554878068946255878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPGovs\/status\/1542177912694136835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/22\/new-york-city-baltimore-los-angeles-philadelphia-violent-crime-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released<\/a> in June showed six major U.S. cities are on track to surpass historic crime records reached in 2021. Violent crimes hit record highs in 2021 in Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., and are all expected to pass their violent crime rates just around six months into 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you can\u2019t send your kids to pump gas or go to the mall or people are getting shot when they are walking down the sidewalk or stabbed when they\u2019re walking in the neighborhood park. People are very frustrated,\u201d Kemp said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn communities across the country like in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, so many other places, is this remarkable, incredible outbreak of crime,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith some dismay over the past year and a half to two years we watched as some of our great cities have been allowed to burn or be looted. All kinds of criminal activities happening,\u201d Dunleavy added.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves then said, \u201cThere is no doubt that the defund the police movement certainly gave criminals more and more incentives to get out and do what they do, which is wreak havoc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cAmericans are paying attention. They recognize the stark contrast between Republican leadership and the failed policies that are coming out of Democratic governors that are leading in states across this country,\u201d Reynolds concluded.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/border-biden-cartels-republican-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Every State Is A Border State\u2019: Republican Governors Join Forces To Tackle Drug Cartel Threat)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress have introduced a resolution saying any member of Congress who makes a public statement advocating for defunding the police should not be allowed to use federal funds to contract private security, as many Democrats have done. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/02\/red-states-republican-pandemic-recovery-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Red States Are Booming While Blue States Have Yet To Recover Post-Pandemic. Here\u2019s Why)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/squad-members-defund-police-spent-thousands-private-security-protect-themselves-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-ayanna-pressley-cori-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> in April 2021 that members of the far-left group in Congress called \u201cthe Squad\u201d spent thousands of campaign funds and used taxpayer dollars on private security for themselves while advocating to defund the police.<\/p>\n<p>The RGA will release the video later Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Governors Association (RGA) will launch a video Thursday highlighting Republican governors\u2019 efforts to combat rises in crime across the U.S. and support law enforcement as Democrats have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"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-1612806","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\/1612806","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612806\/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=1612806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}