‘Still a Big Issue’: Jim Jordan Predicts ‘Urban Crime’ Will Have ‘Electoral Consequences’ for Biden

When Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks, I listen. While I might not always agree with him, Jordan speaks his mind— and he doesn’t give a damn who likes what he says and who doesn’t. I respect that.

In this case, I couldn’t agree more.

Throughout Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency, congressional Republicans have consistently (rightly so) attacked the inept president over his intentional illegal alien crisis, and an economy that has seen tens of millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet— from the gas pump to the grocery store.

Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has continued to highlight a third issue: urban crime and public safety, while his committee has held a series of hearings on “victims of violent crime.”

Jordan told the Washington Examiner on Friday: “I think Americans are fed up with everything they see in the Biden administration,” in reference to “the big four” issues he believes could very well doom Biden’s reelection chances in November. He continued:

We 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. So, those four things are on the minds of Americans.

Exactly. How could objective, freedom-loving, rational Americans not be fed up with everything Biden and his left-wing handlers touch, as they continue to pander to the left-wing fringe of this country?

Here’s more:

Jordan called the focus on law and order a matter of “good public policy.” 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.

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, according to Pew Research, up from 47 percent when Biden assumed office.

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.

Democrats “tacking right” is an interesting proposition. Then again, when the predictable consequences of “Defund the Police” come home to roost, how could they not? 

Yet, Democrats being Democrats, they have continued to deny reality. 

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May 2020, Democrats have done their damnedest to propagate the false narrative that law enforcement officers across America are racist. 

Jordan on Friday dismissed the notion, calling law and order a matter of “good public policy,” and adding that criminal leniency, “embraced and then abandoned by Democrats” (after the death of Floyd), has been to blame for the spike in violence.

The Bottom Line

Jim Jordan was right. Barring unforeseen events, Joe Biden is on track to get “it” handed to him in November. Meanwhile, the Democrat Party continues to be woefully wrong — while urban America continues to suffer.

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