Longtime Republican operative Karl Rove said on Tuesday that crime is a “big problem” for the Democratic Party and warned that some within the party, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, don’t understand how their posture on the issue hurts the party’s “label.”

“This is a big problem for the Democrats. The Democrats don’t seem to understand — certain Democrats, like the socialist running for mayor of New York — do not seem to understand the problems that this represents for their party, and their party’s label. They only need to look to recent history to see how being soft on crime, and adopting the methods of sanctuary cities blow up in their faces,” Rove said during his appearance on Fox News’s “America Reports.”

Rove, who is a Fox News contributor, then listed off

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