resounding rebuke of boudin s soft on crime policies. many were blaming it for the city s huge spike in crime. it has been so bad some stores have been forced to close or severely limit their hours. they can t make any money in other words. that s what they are making they re spending on security. the numbers don t lie. larceny, theft up by more than 20% from last year. motor vehicle theft also surging. a spokesperson for the boudin recall effort explains why his success is bittersweet. it s a bittersweet victory. the reason is because people died, businesses have been destroyed, families have been uprooted. chesa boudin should never have been elected. ousting is an effort that s a year and a half in the making to bring it to the finish line. harris: let s get the news now. senior correspondent claude yo cowen has more from san francisco day one without boudin. that s right, harris. it was a decisive defeat. voters made it clear they wanted to see a change at the top of
thank you. pete hegseth co-host of fox & friends weekend is here. we have so much to get to. let s start there. what is that wider message to say alvin bragg here in new york city? a complete rejection amongst democrats and liberals. he lost by 20 points. he also had 20% of the population of san francisco already move out. you know how those people would have voted living in an open air drug homeless encampment. he opened up the prison and let out 30% of criminals and the entire city of san francisco effectively became a prison for the people that live there. people that would describe themselves as woke, who want criminal justice reform. and those good intentions were not just twisted by boudin they were exploited. he said this is about a movement. this guy is not a progressive. he is a marxist and comes from a family of markists.
this is somebody that s really causing us more of a problem. these liberals that justify these. this had nothing to do with poverty or you could not get a job. these are people that can go back to neighborhood where louis vuiton is not unusual and they can fit in many of it for gag. they hurt the cost of those who want criminal justice reform. at one level they hurt us that s trying to get a break in the criminal justice system which is why i agree with you. you have to give to the judges to have a discretion. all right. let me just say one thing. look at what s happening and something that eric adams had to deal with. look at what happened in wisconsin where you had a guy convicted or arrested for domestic abuse and trying to run
controversy about his comments about segregationists you saw some of his rivals, especially those two african-american candidates, kamala harris and cory booker begin to take aim at the vice president over what had been one of the big cornerstones of his strengths, which is his support among the african-american community. the statement the biden campaign put out in response to that specific sound bite you played from chicago on friday. didn t offer an apology or clarification. it doubled down on what the vice president was trying to say, which was that this is him speaking to the concerns of african-american women mothers especially about concerns ant criminal justice reform. we ll see the vice president s not on the campaign trail for another couple days, he ll in iowa on wednesday heading into parades. they believe it s a controversy that s largely focused on tv and twitter and not one that s moving too many votes just yet. they believe that this too shall pass. rick tyler, if you