Some Democrats in tough re-election campaigns have tried to inoculate themselves on crime ahead of the midterm elections, hoping to counter brutal Republican ads on the issue.
"This is an economy election, but we need to have other messages beyond just 'the economy sucks, vote for us,'" said one Republican strategist involved in midterm races who requested anonymity to candidly discuss strategy. "There is a sense the economy is baked in. [Crime] is that next avenue."
He is one of the Democrats who ran his own ad touting support for law enforcement early in the campaign. In it, a sheriff“If you were smart about this, you understood what the hits might be,” said Matt Corridoni, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “And your average Democrat is not anti-cop, so it was very easy for them to get ahead of it and be pro-active.
"More candidates should take a page out of President Biden’s playbook and make it very clear that they do not support defunding the police, because that’s a slogan that, whether it’s accurate or not, has caught wind," said Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist and former Biden aide. That reflects a tacit acknowledgment of what some in the party see as a long-term trust deficit on public safety that is hard, if not impossible, to fix with a few clever ads. Compounding the problem for Democrats: Big-dollar donors like to see hard-hitting ads that attack Republicans rather than the kind of positive spots that can build credibility for the Democratic Party and its candidates on an issue such as policing.
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