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A CNN panel suggested on Monday that the Democratic Party's overall response to President Donald Trump 's plan to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., might come across as tone-deaf, likening it to the Democratic Party's messaging on the economy during the Biden administration.

"What’s striking is that national Democrats are not following Mayor Bowser‘s lead on this, and that national Democrats have been insisting, ‘Just look at the statistics, we have a 30-year low in violent crime.’ Whereas Mayor Bowser is talking about, ‘Hey, we need to get 500 more police officers on the streets. We'd like the federal government to help us rebuild our jail,’" Axios reporter Alex Thompson said during a discussion on "The Arena with Kasie Hu

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