going to have to face this reality. the guy is utterly toxic, as long as you keep supporting him, you are gonna lose a lot o winnable elections and again, we keep seeing th proof. last night, most of the countr was focused on trump s arraignment, there is two very telling elections. the first was the mayoral race in chicago which, yes, is of course a democratic town. but it s also a democratic tow which had rishi dailey for mayor more than capable of electin what you meant call conservative democrat. and the conservative democra in this race, a guy named paul vallas, was running on a tough on crime platform. in certain ways he underwent i his back, frankly, i mean, first of all he had a lot of money. he outspent employee employe , violence and violence is a very real problem in chicago people are pretty freaked ou by it is upsetting. the city faces lots of challenges fellas lost the race t progressive challenger brandon johnson for a bunch of reasons not the least of which i
a tradition. at some, point for because going to have to face this reality. the guy is utterly toxic, as long as you keep supporting him, you are gonna lose a lot o winnable elections and again, we keep seeing th proof. last night, most of the countr was focused on trump s arraignment, there is two very telling elections. the first was the mayoral race in chicago which, yes, is of course a democratic town. but it s also a democratic tow which had rishi dailey for mayor more than capable of electin what you meant call conservative democrat. and the conservative democra in this race, a guy named paul vallas, was running on a tough on crime platform. in certain ways he underwent i his back, frankly, i mean, first of all he had a lot of money. he outspent employee employe , violence and violence is a very real problem in chicago people are pretty freaked ou by it is upsetting. the city faces lots of challenges fellas lost the race t progressive challenger brandon
become even safer. and the statistics show it in most of the city. there are a few places where we re struggling, there s know question. we have more work to do, for example, in the bronx. but in most of new york city, the statistics show we re getting back to the pre-pandemic levels and then going better and farther. chrisist but eric adams, who takes over as mayor on january 1st, ran on a tough on crime platform, and one of his main tenets was that he s going to restore an anti-crime unit that you disbanded. here is mr. adams. this is going to be a city where we are going to be safe, we re going to have effective policing that s not heavy-handed. we re going to have the backs of our police officers, but we re going to hold them accountable to do their jobs. chris: when voters elected eric adams, i mean, of all the candidates running for mayor, weren t they, in a sense, rejecting you? eric adams is someone i ve worked really closely with, chris. it s pretty well known i
social media has really helped, i think, elevate a lot of these problematic encounters that have frustrated a lot of americans and made for more skeptical of that institution. the problem is blm has used its platform not to affect change at the margins and address those small but meaningful problematic areas within the institution of policing but sought wholesale changes like defunding the police and it has made communities less safe. blm blew it when they had support for the communist government in cuba. you alluded to a change in policy. is that true? i m not sure we can get there just yet. we have a couple of interesting examples. new york city is one of them. eric adams elected on a tough on crime platform. it reflected a lot of people s sense that this was something