By the Numbers: High Crime and Gas Prices Cause Pain

BUCK: Crime way up here in New York City, the place that is supposed to be… Because of history, because of what had happened before, New York was the city that, in many ways, led the charge in normalcy, safety, cleanliness of the streets, making everything function better as a city.

From bringing down homicides to bringing up sanitation, New York was this place that was a beacon in the nineties for the rest of the country. And guess what? The big lie we were told for a long time — remember this, Clay? — was that the murder numbers were up — and pretty much everywhere across the country.

Shootings were up, violent crime was up because of covid, which never made sense, but it was purely a delay tactic, and what we’ve seen now, is just hoping that something else would come up or really that the numbers would start to fall, right? It was just, “Don’t allow people to talk about this because the longer they do the more frustrated they’ll become. So, act like it’s covid,” even though that made absolutely no sense from the very beginning.

Clay, they’ve got a big problem. You might have seen over the weekend there was a new Pew poll that come out, and it turns out — and I think this is entirely unsurprising — that the top-three concerns for African-American voters: Crime, housing, the economy. Crime really at the top of the list. Racism at the very, very bottom of the list. It just feels like one year in, one-year-and-change in, Biden’s whole presidency is just a catalog of failures so far.

CLAY: Yeah. It’s an unmitigated disaster on virtually every level for the Biden administration — and, in particular, Buck, if you look at those numbers, it reflects what we’ve been saying on this show for a long time. What did we say on Friday? Joe Biden’s approval rating among Hispanic voters is down to 26%. That’s lower than it is for white voters, and even for black voters, I believe, it was down to 65%, which is an unbelievably low number for historically a Democratic president to find himself in. And it’s because white, black, Asian, Hispanic people tend to have the biggest similarities in thoughts.