With public support of his immigration and economic policies flailing, President Donald Trump thinks he has found a winning issue: crime. During a recent Cabinet meeting, the president referred to crime as a "big subject of the midterms," adding that he thinks it will "be a big subject of the next election," according to CNN. "Republicans are going to do really well."
In the past month, the president has instituted a federal takeover of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, deployed the National Guard to deal with the city's "crime emergency," and signed an executive order aimed at restricting the use of cashless bail nationwide. Trump has also threatened similar military deployments in other U.S. cities, which could stand on shaky legal ground.
Despite this, the president thinks his