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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

As you may have noticed, Donald Trump regularly attacks President Biden and Democrats as woefully soft on violent crime.

Yet it's actually substantially down under Biden after soaring during the pandemic, which Trump made much worse than it had to be when he was president. Today, the Democratic

Group Third Way is releasing a new study finding that congressional Democrats have secured significantly

more in funding for public safety projects across the country

than Republicans have. This new information, along with the crime stats, raises a question. Can't Biden

and Democrats favorably contrasts their records on crime with Trump's? Can't Dems go on offense on this

issue? Today we're talking to Third Way's Executive Vice President for Policy, Jim Kessler.

He's going to break down the group's new study for us and talk about its larger implications.

Good to have you on, Jim.

Great, great to see you.

Okay, Jim, so today, Monday, the day this podcast is airing, your group is releasing this new study.

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