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Joe Biden Beat The Trump Crime Wave
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Joe Biden Beat The Trump Crime Wave

And why Donald Trump has a bigger vulnerability on crime than the economy
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This week, Matt and Brian take a wide-angle view of new data showing inflation and violent crime way down:

  • Why is good economic news so tricky for Joe Biden to capitalize on?

  • How can Biden remind voters that Trump handed him a depressed economy with broken supply chains, and that Biden fixed both unemployment and inflation?

  • Is it fair to tag Trump with the 2020 economic collapse and crime surge?

Then, behind the paywall, we home in specifically on the crime issue, where the case that Biden saved the country from Trump’s failures is strongest: Why did murders explode in 2020? To what extent is Trump to blame for fomenting criminal activity or for discouraging fair, legitimate policing? How did Biden manage to get a handle on both sides of that equation so quickly? All that, plus the full Politix archive are available to paid subscribers—just upgrade your subscription and pipe full episodes directly to your favorite podcast app via your own private feed.

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