this sunday, crime and punishment. president biden backs down from fighting a republican effort to block dc s more lenient approach to crime. we will make chicago the safest city in america. just after the perception of rising crime took down chicago s mayor. we fought the right fights. can biden s moves help democrats from being seen as soft on crime going into 2024? plus, divide and conquer. florida governor ron desantis isn t officially in the race yet, but he s eagerly courting trump s base. i think there is a strong anti-woke majority across the country. the primary fight is kicked into high gear as more candidates consider challenging trump. for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i will talk to chris sununu who is considering his own white house run. and confronting china. a bipartisan push to face the growing threats from beijing. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century.
democrats off guard because it will be the first time in 30 years that congress has nullified a law in dc and as a democratic president and the democratic senate, but if you do it through the lens of political calculation it may make perfect sense that neither he nor his party with a lot of red areas could defend can afford to look soft on crime heading into 2024. republicans tried to make crime a central issue in the 2022 midterms, and they ve certainly had success in new york state and other areas. the results this week in the chicago mayor s race where voters fired the incumbent are a reminder that crime and police are still important to urban voters and a huge part of the democratic coalition. democrats have been twisted in knots on the crime issue because it s a problem with swing voters, and president trump is president biden is trying to provide them with a way forward, and it s being twisted, and the abortion issue, but no one in the gop at least to date has
chief of usa today, susan page. welcome to all of you. hallie, i want to with what i think are the presidential races gearing up on the republican side. president biden, what he did on a triangulation of crime, we may be nullifying the first law in dc, i want to play what muriel bowser s reaction was. we played it on friday. i ll talk with you on the other side. the president had issued a pretty direct statement about dc autonomy, and we wholeheartedly agree. president biden has been a vocal supporter of dc home rule and of the state for washington, and vetoed the bill and unfortunately we live with the indignity of limited home rule in the district of columbia. all right. i m going to try to get through this fast. dc did rewrite a criminal code. mayor bowser, 12 to 1 and
this is not. and she found all sorts of ways to ding him, ping him, probe into that very fragile ego that he has, without looking mean or nasty or frankly there s that word. and what i want to say about that, chris, the reason a lot of women are reacting to that word and sort of embracing it today, it s reclaiming the term nasty woman. yeah, nancy pelosi said, one nasty woman to another. a lot of us remember the song from the 80s, janet jackson, nasty, the most requested thing on spotify, nasty boys don t mean a thi thinthing thing . she was doing it, too, last night. anything to tweaking the guy or ticking him off, actually, she was also talking constantly to a particular group of voters. jonathan, you d pick up on this. i watched her when she talked about the heller bill, which is the gun everybody can have a gun, basically, law in d.c., to some extent, pretty strong,
significant level in this country. you saw the report by that professor, out of 2 billion votes cast in the last 45 years, 31 instances of fraud. when the voter i.d. law was challenged in pennsylvania, the republican attorney general, who was trying to sustain the law, was asked by the court to name an example of voter i.d. fraud? and he said, i m sorry, your honor, i can t name one. steve, what s the point here? why are we talked about a rigged election at this point, three weeks out? why talk about a rigged election, and that language comes from him? yeah, i don t want to be talking about it. i want to be why does he keep doing it? he doesn t keep doing it. he clarified it today, chris. you re being unfair. i m being fair. his exact words in the speech, he said, i will accept the result if i win, is what he said. but he went on. that was a joke. that s unfair. he went on and said, i will follow and a abide by baall the