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Despite the dominance of Democrats in California, the state government has been criticized for ignoring the rising concerns of residents about crime. The state’s Democratic leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom, have been committed to ‘criminal justice reform,’ which has meant decreasing penalties for crime. However, post-pandemic worries about crime, fueled by videos depicting brazen carjackings, home robberies, and smash-and-grab assaults on stores, have led to a shift in public sentiment. Despite the evidence of increasing crime rates, the Capitol has been slow to respond, resulting in a growing dissonance between the public’s changing attitudes and the Democratic-controlled Legislature’s unchanged commitment to softening criminal penalties. This has led to a backlash, with the public demanding a change in approach to crime prevention. As a result, Newsom and other Democratic figures have begun to recast themselves as crime fighters, pledging to crack down on street crime and proposing legislation to fine-tune criminal statutes and increase punishment for certain crimes. The Legislature is also facing pressure from a November ballot measure that would go further in undoing some of the previous softer-on-crime laws. Whether a compromise can be reached between the measure’s backers and Democratic leaders to avoid a head-on collision remains to be seen.

Despite strong voter registration reports for Pennsylvania Democrats in 2020, the GOP gained ground in the summer and fall. However, Biden ultimately won the state in November, suggesting that voter registration trends provide limited insight into future election results.

A recent poll reveals that 24% of Democratic voters do not plan to vote for incumbent President Biden in the upcoming presidential election. The poll, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, surveyed 1,698 Democrat voters. A possible reason for this defection is Biden’s response to the Israel/Gaza war, with 13% of non-Biden voters citing excessive Israeli force. However, the poll also shows Biden leading among previous voters in a separate poll. Biden’s lead is narrow, with 44% of voters choosing him and 46% choosing Trump when presented with only those two candidates. According to an associate professor of public policy, the race is expected to be very close, and polls may fluctuate until November.

Amid growing internal disagreements within the Democratic party over his support for Israel’s actions against Hamas, President Biden met with liberal lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday to discuss the escalating tensions between Israel and Gaza. Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats have criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bombing campaign in Gaza, likening the situation to ‘an unfolding genocide.’ Despite these concerns, Ocasio-Cortez has emphasized the need for Biden’s reelection while seeking to address both domestic and international democratic values.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene alleges that Democrats want former President Trump dead, suggesting a plan to murder him in jail. Greene’s claims are based on Congressman Bennie Thompson’s bill to strip Secret Service protection from convicted felons, which she interprets as an attempt to expose Trump to violence. Former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz has also expressed concerns about the bill’s potential consequences for Trump’s safety.

Ohio Democrats are facing a potential roadblock in getting President Joe Biden on the November ballot due to a technicality. A state law requires parties to certify their presidential candidates 90 days before the election, but Biden will not be the official Democratic nominee until the national convention on August 19th, just 20 days before the deadline. The Republican-controlled legislature could pass an emergency bill to waive the deadline, but there is uncertainty about their willingness to help the Democrats.

Foreign policy in 2024 is not so much a question of Republicans versus Democrats as it is of Republicans versus Republicans and Democrats versus Democrats. For President Biden’s party, Israel is the dividing line between supporters of the Jewish state and those with Palestinian sympathies. For Donald Trump’s party, the internal conflict is over Ukraine, and the bitterness of the battle risks costing Mike Johnson his speakership.