Finally, a Democrat calls out a Republican on the truth about crime rates — violent crime rates are higher in Oklahoma than New York and Californa. This will be fact checked. #okgovdebate pic.twitter.com/lm0KTpgViT
— danny (@dabbs346) October 19, 2022
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— Jim Kessler (@ThirdWayKessler) October 19, 2022
Thank u for writing on our report @marcthiessen. A few facts you glossed over. Fact 1) in 2020, Trump-voting states had murder rates 40% > than Biden-voting states (11,521 murders/140,533,769 pop vs 10,946/189,418,128) https://t.co/a18fDzo8Tv 1/
Oklahoma has a higher murder rate than New York, presumably because of all the leftist governance the state has been subject to by Kevin Sitt and the state legislature. pic.twitter.com/KX3r3DgAh2
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 19, 2022
In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 16, 2022
8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century. https://t.co/L5UoyywXwJ
You can exclude every murder committed in St. Louis and Kansas City, and Missouri would still have a higher murder rate than states like NY, NJ, and CT. https://t.co/1nS3eBUtVk
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 21, 2022
I keep seeing arguments about claims that with all the GOP complaints abt crime it's really the red states that are driving the crime numbers. Well, this is actually a topic I've been studying for many years. And in fact most of what we now call "red states" have had …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 22, 2022
