{"id":589021,"date":"2021-07-12T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589021"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:07:08","slug":"poll-70-of-black-voters-now-say-violent-crime-is-a-major-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-70-of-black-voters-now-say-violent-crime-is-a-major-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: 70% Of Black Voters Now Say Violent Crime Is A \u2018Major Crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fpoll-70-of-black-voters-now-say-violent-crime-is-a-major-crisis%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=589021&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\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-696172410.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new poll from a Democratic voter research firm may be bad news for Democrats heading into the mid-year elections. Although Republicans and Democrats differ widely on key issues, a majority of voters in both parties now agree that violent crime has reached \u201ccrisis\u201d levels.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Kraushaar at National Journal reported, over the weekend, that a new poll from&nbsp;Navigator Research, a Democratic firm that releases a weekly \u201cpulse\u201d for candidates and politicos on top issues among voters, shows surprising agreement between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of rising violence in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see a rare point of agreement between Republicans and Democrats, it\u2019s worth taking notice,\u201d Kraushaar noted. \u201cThat moment happened this week when the Democratic polling firm Navigator Research released its weekly survey, which asked voters what issues they rated as major crises. On most of the 14 issues tested, from the coronavirus pandemic to inflation, Republicans and Democrats differed sharply over their significance. For instance, 70 percent of Democrats still see the pandemic as a \u2018major crisis,\u2019 but only 30 percent of Republicans agree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, crime ranked ahead of the pandemic as the top issue for all voters,\u201d he continued. \u201cEven more surprisingly, it was an issue that voters of both parties ranked highly: 57 percent of Republicans called the issue a major crisis while 52 percent of Democrats concurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost significantly, 70 percent of African-American voters called violent crime a major crisis,\u201d Kraushaar reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, in the wake of the national anti-racism and anti-police brutality that followed George Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis, Democrats adopted a progressive approach to crime \u2014 notably, Democratic politicians at all levels of government supported efforts to \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts, while popular among progressives, were unpopular among black Americans. According to Newsweek, a poll taken last year \u2014 at the height of efforts to \u201cdefund the police\u201d \u2014 more than 80% said that \u201cthey want police presence in their area to either remain the same or increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As recently as April, Democratic strategists were counseling Democrats to shy away from calls to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/democrats-defund-police-reform-61dcf661-0024-4dfd-a709-6e8749c466a3.html\">according to Axios<\/a>. \u201cCalls by activists to \u2018defund\u2019 police departments can \u2014 and have \u2014 hurt Democrats in tight races,\u201d \u201cCelinda Lake, a pollster who does work for the Democratic National Committee,\u201d told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with crime spiking across the country, and following a \u201cbloody\u201d Fourth of July weekend that saw dozens killed and hundreds wounded in incidents of gun violence nationwide, it seems Democrats are \u201cstruggling\u201d to find a way to stay tough on crime without alienating progressives \u2014 and at the same time stay tough on police reform without alienating black voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that the \u2018defund the police\u2019 stuff is not popular. There\u2019s a mainstream way out of it. People want to feel safe. They want to see we\u2019re addressing the problem. I still think people think we need police accountability, but they can\u2019t hear just one side of that issue from us,\u201d one Democratic strategist told National Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, even the White House is having difficulty getting ahead of the problem. After a particularly violent weekend in Chicago, President Joe Biden reportedly committed to sending a federal \u201cstrike force\u201d to the city to help Chicago\u2019s mayor Lori Lightfoot get a handle on spiking violent crime, but Biden has yet to address crime on a national scale.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll from a Democratic voter research firm may be bad news for Democrats heading into the mid-year elections. 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