Previewing Joe Biden's crime speech
Later today, Joe Biden will give a major speech on the crime epidemic gripping the nation. At this point, there's no reason to think that the speech will be anything except Democrat boilerplate. Still, this AP article provides an outline that Biden's speech will likely follow.
It says "White House aides believe that Biden, with his long legislative record on crime as a former senator, is not easy to paint as soft on the issue, and the president has been clear that he is opposed to the “defund the police” movement, which has been effectively used against other Democrats to paint them as anti-law enforcement."
Biden's legislative record won't provide Democrats much protection if violent crime continues to spike. People in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis and Portland don't care about legislative records because they aren't safe.
The White House also planned to convene a meeting Wednesday with Attorney General Merrick Garland; the Democratic mayors of Baltimore and Miami-Dade County and the Republican mayor of Rapid City, South Dakota; the Democratic attorney general of New Jersey; the police chief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and community activists.
This is just background noise. Therefore, it's essentially meaningless. Until violent crime starts dropping in Democrat-run big cities, people will see today's speech as being partisan CYA. Citing statistics like this won't help make the administration's case:
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