Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sees urban crime as dangerous to President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects as homicide and theft continue to plague America’s largest cities.
House Republicans have spent months highlighting the crisis at the southern border. Stubbornly low approval ratings on the economy have also weighed down the president.
But Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has continued to highlight a third issue, one that dogged Democrats for much of the last election cycle: public safety.
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The panel has held a series of hearings on the “victims of violent crime.” On Friday, Jordan brought lawmakers to Philadelphia to speak with the families of slain officers who blamed the city’s progressive district attorney for their deaths.
The focus is a bit of an aberration
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