Clinton joined Gov. Hochul for a girls's "Get Out the Vote" rally on November 3.
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Hillary Clinton and Krazy Kat Hochul must get on the identical web page regarding crime.
Is it actual, as Clinton appears to imagine? Or is it, as Hochul has contended, an overblown marketing campaign distraction — promoted by “grasp manipulators” and “knowledge deniers” to derail her bid to grow to be New York’s first elected feminine governor?
Sisterly solidarity was the order of the day at Barnard Faculty Thursday — with Hillary and Hochul standing shoulder-to-shoulder earlier than a cheering, absolutely dedicated array of feminism-centric true believers.
It was a kind of late-campaign occasions the place the hype is thick, the place the rhetoric is hyperbolic and the place the info don’t actually matter. How very odd, then, that Hillary let the reality peek by means of.
Oh, for positive, the partisan newspeak was there — darkly threatening Republicans cover behind each tree in Hillaryland, and have for many years. However all of the sudden she slipped.
“They don’t care about retaining you secure,” she stated — they being GOP candidate Lee Zeldin and his social gathering mates. “They need to preserve you scared.”
However secure from what? Terrified of whom? Crime? And criminals? Appears so.
However didn’t Hochul, simply final Sunday, inform MSNBC’s Al Sharpton that crime isn’t actual? By no means thoughts New York’s surprising physique depend, its bloody subway platforms, its insane penal codes and its cadre of woke district attorneys — the actual drawback is GOP disinformation.
Republicans, she stated, “are grasp manipulators. They've this conspiracy going all throughout America attempting to persuade … people who they aren't secure.”
True sufficient, she was instantly bludgeoned into conceding that crime is “a problem,” which isn't fairly the identical as an issue — which, actually, vastly understates New York’s crime disaster.
Because the boneheaded penal-law “reforms” of 2019 and usually lowered policing following COVID and the George Floyd rioting, violent crime in New York’s cities has exploded.
It’s up 30% in New York Metropolis since final yr — main felonies are up 10% and transit crime is up 42% over the previous two years — with 24 murders.
“Grasp manipulators” at work right here, as Krazy Kat claimed?
Hardly. The crime wave bought an enormous enhance from COVID, to make sure, nevertheless it’s principally the work of a New York progressive cabal decided to defang the penal code as a result of critical regulation enforcement inequitably targets minorities.
That’s a rivalry crime victims themselves, overwhelmingly minorities, seemingly would contest — even when Hochul buys it hook, line and drive-by capturing. So how inconvenient of Hillary to puncture her fantasy balloon.
“I see [campaign] adverts about crime each 30 seconds,” she stated at Barnard Thursday. “No options, however simply loads of actually fearful, scary photos.”
However “actually fearful, scary photos” of what, precisely? Crime scenes, after all — and thus does Hillary debunk Hochul’s no-such-thing-as-a-crime-wave deflection.
Plus this: Hillary says Republicans harp about crime — however supply, in her phrases, “no options.”
Properly, now. The very fact is that Zeldin has been about nothing however options for months now — perhaps to a fault, however actually to good impact, judging from the narrowing marketing campaign polls.
Rolling again these noxious 2019 penal-law “reforms” — particularly cashless bail — is an answer. Focusing state coverage on making the streets safer by means of vigorous regulation enforcement is an answer. Placing woke DAs of their place as New York’s Structure permits is an answer. And so forth.
Once more, Lee Zeldin is effervescent over with options — whereas Krazy Kat Hochul must be hammer-locked into admitting there's even an issue.
So due to Hillary Clinton for injecting some actuality into the Hochul marketing campaign. Individuals go to rallies to cheer candidates, to not hear reality — however generally reality emerges anyway.
And now comes information that President Joe Biden shall be, um, talking on Hochul’s behalf in Yonkers Sunday. The probabilities listed here are scrumptious, if seemingly somewhat formidable to the governor’s workers.
As a result of in the event that they couldn’t belief Hillary Clinton to remain on message, think about their angst over the harm Joe Biden’s scary fact-mangling might do.
On such a weak hinge does Hochul’s fortune swing.
bob@bobmcmanus.nyc
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