{"id":2237022,"date":"2024-05-04T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-predicts-crime-will-hobble-biden-in-november-still-a-big-issue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T05:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:06:36","slug":"jim-jordan-predicts-crime-will-hobble-biden-in-november-still-a-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-predicts-crime-will-hobble-biden-in-november-still-a-big-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan forecasts that crime will impede Biden in November: \u2018Remains a major concern."},"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%2Fjim-jordan-predicts-crime-will-hobble-biden-in-november-still-a-big-issue%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=2237022&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>Rep. Jim Jordan \u200c(R-OH) raises \u2062concerns about urban crime impacting President Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s reelection chances, \u200bas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assaults-on-u-s-mail-carriers-skyrocket-as-crime-rates-soar\/\" title=\"Assaults on U.S. Mail Carriers Skyrocket As Crime Rates Soar\">crime rates soar<\/a> in major cities. House\u200d Republicans focus on the southern border crisis and the president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teamsters-vote-for-ups-strike-setting-the-stage-for-historic-showdown\/\" title=\"Teamsters vote for UPS strike, paving the way for a historic showdown.\">low economic approval ratings<\/a>. Jordan \u2063emphasizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-d-c-mayor-extends-emergency-declaration-for-15-days\/\" title=\"Washington, D.C. mayor extends emergency declaration for 15 days\">public safety<\/a>\u2063 issues and criticizes\u200d Democrats on criminal leniency. He predicts\u200b crime\u2063 will be a significant issue affecting Biden&#8217;s electoral prospects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jim-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH) sees urban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>crime<\/a> as dangerous to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> reelection prospects as homicide and theft continue to plague America\u2019s largest cities.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have spent months highlighting the crisis at the southern border. Stubbornly low approval ratings on the economy have also weighed down the president.<\/p>\n<p>But Jordan, the chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-judiciary-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Judiciary Committee<\/a>, has continued to highlight a third issue, one that dogged Democrats for much of the last election cycle: public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The panel has held a series of hearings on the \u201cvictims of violent crime.\u201d On Friday, Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2990376\/house-judiciary-larry-krasner-violent-crime-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>brought lawmakers to Philadelphia<\/a> to speak with the families of slain officers who blamed the city\u2019s progressive district attorney for their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The focus is a bit of an aberration for House Republicans. That is, in part, because homicides, which peaked during the pandemic, have begun to decline nationwide. Republicans also underperformed in the midterm elections despite the political headwinds favoring them on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Jordan sees a melding of issues, which he dubbed the \u201cbig four,\u201d as hobbling Democrats, and crime is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s still a big issue,\u201d he told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in an interview ahead of his hearing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went from a secure border to no border. We went from safe streets to record crime. We went from $2 gas to $4 gas, and we went from stable pricing to record inflation,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, those four things are on the minds of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan called the focus on law and order a matter of \u201cgood public policy.\u201d He and his Republican colleagues spent the better part of three hours arguing that criminal leniency, embraced and then abandoned by Democrats after the death of George Floyd, was to blame for the spike in violence.<\/p>\n<p>But Jordan acknowledged that crime also has electoral consequences, and he predicted that Biden will be tied to it. Fifty-eight percent of the public believes crime should be a top priority for Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/04\/24\/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> Pew Research, up from 47% when Biden assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Americans are fed up with everything they see in the Biden administration,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have attempted to neutralize that line of attack. Although the killing of Floyd ushered in conversations about police brutality and even calls to defund the police, the pandemic-era rise in crime forced Democrats to tack right.<\/p>\n<p>They highlight dollars allocated by the American Rescue Plan that localities have used to staff up their police departments, while Biden has leaned into law and order messaging as he runs for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2989286\/republicans-pressure-biden-campus-protest-condemnation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>delivered a rebuke<\/a> of the vandalism and harassment consuming anti-Israel college protests. <\/p>\n<p>Jordan dismissed the speech, which came after a week of silence from the president, as \u201call of four minutes\u201d and \u201cpretty late,\u201d and he called for the administration to revoke the visas of foreign students who engaged in unlawful activity as part of the protests.<\/p>\n<p>The demand, which he made in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demonstrates the ways crime continues to be a red-meat issue for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>But it also shows how it\u2019s become subordinated to, or at least interwoven with, concerns over immigration. The party frequently cites drug trafficking and instances in which Americans were killed by illegal immigrants. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that bundled up into bigger issues like border security are crime policy,\u201d Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a border state Republican who leads the Judiciary subcommittee focused on crime, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime is kind of nested into a bigger picture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) views urban crime as a threat to President Biden&#8217;s reelection chances, with rising homicide and theft rates in major cities. House Republicans focus on the southern border crisis. Persistent low economic approval ratings further burden the president. Jordan, as the chairman, emphasizes the challenges facing the administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":2237023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24080655443118-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24080655443118-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237022","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\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}