Incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made some eye-popping comments on MSNBC in a recent interview appearance, attempting to defend her record on crime by insisting that the “idea” that crime is rising is a “national conspiracy.”
“These are master manipulators. They have this conspiracy going all across America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they’re not as safe. Well guess what? They’re also not only election deniers, they’re data deniers,” Hochul told host Al Sharpton.
“Safer places are the Democratic states,” she claimed.
It’s not the first time Hochul has made eyebrow-raising comments about crime in her state. During her lone debate with Republican Lee Zeldin, Hochul openly wondered why Zeldin cares so much about crime.
With the gubernatorial race in New York becoming increasingly tight – and with Zeldin even leading in one poll – Hochul might be grasping at straws to save her flailing campaign. RealClearPolitics now rates the race a “toss up” in a stunning shift from just weeks ago.
At the top of his campaign’s messaging is Zeldin’s relentless attacks on New York’s crime problem and its enabler – the state’s bail reform laws.
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but even if the rising national crime rate is a “conspiracy”, she isn’t running for re-election based on national stats, but on her own record in new york state.
voters need to consider whether she is doing well to control crime in new york or not.
After all, wasn’t it Trump who led the stampede/takeover of the Capital on January 6th???
She’s correct in saying that, in general, “Safer places are the Democratic states” but the conclusion she draws from that is completely erroneous. The South has always had a higher crime rate than the North. That has been true for centuries. Indeed a large part of the North’s crime problem is due to the mass migration of black people to the North in the mid-20th-century. Therefore the baseline for southern states is higher, and any comparison of the effect of government policies has to be adjusted for that. And when you do adjust you see that the Democrat states and cities have a huge problem. (Even in the South, the crime problem is concentrated in Democrat-run cities.)
Denying the problem isn’t particularly wise. It enrages people who are suffering and have to deal with crime as a daily reality. Hochul doesn’t strike me to be a very bright woman. Just saying..
The murder rate is higher in Texas and Florida compared to NY. We need a little education here. She is right.
Wow! So strange! A Demonrat denying reality and facts that every person (by definition the term “person” excludes demonrats and those who vote for them) can see? Never seen that before!
If Hochul wants to make claims that are far from reality, Sharpton is a great guy to do it with.
leave her its ok shes a skvera chusid
She deserves a good spanking