Democrats’ blue-state failures are becoming a political problem

Republicans have Democrats nationwide on the ropes over local governing failures on issues such as crime, a vulnerability that could cost them at the ballot box if left unaddressed.

President Donald Trump has spent the past several months pushing the issue of state and local crime to the foreground of U.S. politics by either sending or threatening to send federalized troops to Democrat-led cities such as Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. His administration has highlighted failures by state leaders and painted their handling of public safety as abysmal.

Trump has called Baltimore a “hellhole” and Los Angeles a lawless “trash heap,” and he posted a parody image from Apocalypse Now featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city. 

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