Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) argued former President Donald Trump could do very well if he campaigns against crime and Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on it.
Trump is currently making campaign stops in battleground states to counter-program the Democratic National Convention, with one of his stops made in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday. The former president warned that voters would see “levels of crime that you’ve never seen before” if Harris is elected president, which Donalds encouraged to press forward.
“Her record is one that has been actually very soft on crime,” Donalds said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “She was bailing out rioters during the summer of love with the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis. She actually put up for legislation in the Senate to incentivize states to move towards a cashless bail system, something that will make every city in our country significantly less safe because cities like my former city of New York City went to cashless bail. It’s been a disaster for the city of New York and so many other major cities; that’s her record.”
Donalds also argued that there has been a major spike in crime rates in the wake of COVID-19, knocking Democrats who have said that crime is down. He claimed that those arguing crime is not a major issue are making this assessment “from their elevated mass in crime spike under the Biden-Harris regime.”
Regarding how Trump could campaign on crime, Donalds suggested that the former president should host events with victims. He referenced how some of these victims were at the Republican National Convention and spoke about “the failures” of Harris and President Joe Biden while reflecting on “the successes” of Trump.
“So that’s why when all this is over and the show is done and people settle down and start looking at the outcomes of policy between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, it’s going to be an easy choice this November,” Donalds said.
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Donalds defended the former president on Tuesday for visiting Howell, Michigan, dismissing insinuations that Trump chose the city to win over voters who were sympathetic to the white nationalists. The city saw a group of pro-Nazis carrying swastika banners with the message “We love Hitler” written on them last month, though Donalds said he did not want any association with them, “and neither does President Trump.”
Trump’s next rally, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, will be in North Carolina, a state he won during the 2020 presidential election but is currently a toss-up.