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发布时间：2025-09-11 12:06:07 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：休闲

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DC mayor praises Trump’s crime crackdown

‘America Reports’ panelists Yemisi Egbewole and Jessica Anderson discuss the Trump administration’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital.

I'll admit it: Democrats are on the defensive when it comes to crime. President Donald Trump’s takeovers of Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles aren't making America any safer, but they're effective stunts — designed to put Democrats on the back foot and distract from his administration driving our country to economic ruin. 

Republican law and order messaging is nothing new — Google "Richard Nixon." But in the wake of the whole "defund the police" debacle, Democrats are still working to find clear, consistent answers to it that voters trust. Democrats’ perceived positions on law-and-order issues are some of the clear disconnects we have with working-class voters of all races.  

That needs to change — and fast. The stupidity from the White House will only intensify heading into the 2026 midterms. We need to be ready to not just counter punch, but to go on offense when talking about crime. Democrats can’t get caught up litigating stupid slogans. 

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The good news is that former Virginia Democrat Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is on the ballot this November for governor in Virginia, is delivering a masterclass in what credible leadership on stopping crime looks like. 

Abigail Spanberger, Virginia Democratic Party nominee for governor, addresses the crowd during an event in support of her run for office at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center in Richmond, Virginia, on April 8, 2025. (Max Posner/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

This month, the Virginia Police Benevolent Association, the state’s largest police union, unanimously endorsed Spanberger — the first time they’ve backed a Democrat for governor of Virginia since the late 2000s. They notably snubbed Spanberger’s opponent in this year’s race, current Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who these police had endorsed in 2021 and whose campaign highlights to-date include telling recently laid-off Virginians that she doesn’t "understand why" losing your job is "a huge, huge thing." 

Of course, this isn’t the first time Spanberger stands apart from her party. Five years ago, the former federal law enforcement officer, CIA officer and daughter of a cop, blasted fellow Democrats for adopting "defund the police" messaging, warning that the phrase was both substantively wrong and politically toxic. Sounds familiar. 

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Instead of following the worst instincts of her party, Spanberger has repeatedly stuck to her guns and bucked the party orthodoxy. She talks about what it means to wear the badge, and what it meant to see her dad put one on every day when he went to work.  

She crossed the aisle to vote for additional funding for police departments. She also led the charge to let retired officers receive the full Social Security benefits they paid into during their careers. That law even earned her recent praise from the Fraternal Order of Police, the same police union that endorsed Trump during each of his three runs for president.  

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