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President Donald Trump has the "upper hand" on the Democratic Party when it comes to crime, Politico's Rachel Bade said Wednesday during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"From a purely political standpoint, Donald Trump, on this issue, believes he has the upper hand, and I think you're seeing that right now," Bade said. "I mean we see a lot of Democrats talking about how, ‘Oh, this is authoritarian,' right? But look, voters don’t like overtly partisan power grabs, sure. But there’s one thing they don’t like even more, and that is feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods."

Bade wrote in a column for Politico on Tuesday that the Democratic Party needed a better response to Trump's crime crackdown.

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