{"id":1720160,"date":"2022-11-01T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720160"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:34:41","slug":"black-police-chiefs-crime-centered-campaign-could-bring-shock-upset-in-deep-blue-new-york-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-police-chiefs-crime-centered-campaign-could-bring-shock-upset-in-deep-blue-new-york-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Police Chief\u2019s Crime-Centered Campaign Could Bring Shock Upset in Deep-Blue New York District"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fblack-police-chiefs-crime-centered-campaign-could-bring-shock-upset-in-deep-blue-new-york-district%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=1720160&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem groups rush to save Rep. Joe Morelle against Republican challenger La&#8217;Ron Singletary<\/p>\n<p>    Rep. Joseph Morelle (Getty Images)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 November 1, 2022 1:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>A former police chief&#8217;s crime-centered campaign has Democrats sweating in deep-blue Rochester, N.Y., where incumbent congressman Joe Morelle suddenly finds himself on upset alert.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D., Calif.) House Majority PAC dropped $275,000 on an ad buy to help Morelle that will air this week, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/31\/democrats-rush-aid-to-deep-blue-seat-in-upstate-new-york-00064258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday. The spending suggests Democrats are increasingly nervous about Morelle&#8217;s campaign against Republican La&#8217;Ron Singletary, a former Rochester police chief who has focused his campaign message on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rochesterbeacon.com\/2022\/02\/03\/rochesters-homicide-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city&#8217;s homicide surge<\/a> following a state bail reform law that went into effect at the start of 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singletary, who is black, was not expected to give Morelle a run for his money. The incumbent Democrat cruised to reelection in 2020, defeating his Republican challenger by 20 points. New York&#8217;s redistricting process went on to make Morelle&#8217;s 25th Congressional District slightly less blue, but President Joe Biden still would have won the newly drawn district by 20 points two years ago. Morelle also holds a strong financial advantage over Singletary, having spent $800,000 on TV ads to Singletary&#8217;s $160,000 prior to House Majority PAC&#8217;s ad buy.<\/p>\n<p>Morelle is far from the only surprisingly vulnerable Democratic incumbent with Election Day just one week away. In deep-blue Southern California, Rep. Julia Brownley is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/democrats-ramp-spending-blue-districts-gop-sees-red-wave-forming-rcna54506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begging her Democratic colleagues for cash<\/a> as internal polling shows she could lose to Republican Matt Jacobs in a newly drawn district Biden also would have won by 20 points in 2020. Like Singletary, Jacobs\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/a-former-federal-prosecutors-bid-to-bring-common-sense-to-southern-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former federal prosecutor<\/a>\u2014has centered much of his campaign on a law-and-order message as Los Angeles County deals with <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la-west\/inside-the-issues\/2022\/07\/27\/lapd-chief-addresses-the-rise-in-crime-and-violence-in-l-a--county-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rising homicides<\/a>. Nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1587470548971376642?s=20&#038;t=mjSVNG6pC3SjzCoOi7ukkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed<\/a> its rating of Brownley&#8217;s race from &#8220;Solid D&#8221; to &#8220;Lean D,&#8221; one of 10 rating changes that favored Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are not great,&#8221; one House Democrat told NBC News in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/democrats-ramp-spending-blue-districts-gop-sees-red-wave-forming-rcna54506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> published Sunday. &#8220;Everyone knows that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former police chief&#8217;s crime-centered campaign has Democrats sweating in deep-blue Rochester, N.Y., where incumbent congressman Joe Morelle suddenly finds himself on upset alert.<br \/>\nThe post Black Police Chief\u2019s Crime-Centered Campaign Could Bring Shock Upset in Deep-Blue New York District appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1720164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720160","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}