By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A new survey from Rasmussen Reports says an overwhelming majority (83%) of likely voters believe violent crime will be a campaign issue in this fall’s mid-term elections.
According to Rasmussen, that number includes “56% who say the crime issue will be Very Important. Only 16% don’t think the issue of violent crime will be important in the November elections.”
Rasmussen also found 65 percent believe the problem of violent crime is getting worse, while only 11 percent think things are improving.
“Fifty percent (50%) of voters say the Biden administration’s policy for dealing with violent crime is worse than the Trump administration’s policy,” Rasmussen said, “while 29% think the Biden crime policy is better than Trump’s. Another 17% believe the crime policy of the two administrations is about the same.”
Breaking things down along party lines, Rasmussen reported, “Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans say the problem of violent crime in America is getting worse, as do 48% of Democrats and 70% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Far more Democrats (20%) than Republicans (7%) or unaffiliated voters (4%) think the violent crime problem is getting better. Thirty percent (30%) of Democrats, 24% of unaffiliated voters and 13% of Republicans believe the violent crime problem is staying about the same.”
The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on February 17 and 20 by Rasmussen Reports, the polling firm said. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence, according to Rasmussen.
Democrats are far less likely than Republicans or Independents to believe violent crime will be an issue this fall, and a majority of Democrats do not agree that Biden’s handling of the crime issue is worse than Trump’s.
