Americans should cut through the noise of political fearmongering to understand what Today in Ohio hosts described Wednesday as a calculated political strategy: Donald Trump and Republicans manufacturing a national crime crisis to scare voters into supporting them next year.

After spending years stoking fears about immigration, Republicans appear to be pivoting to another manufactured boogeyman – crime – and the podcast hosts weren’t having it.

“With this story and the next one we’re talking about, we’re basically dealing with crime, which is not one of the biggest problems in America today. There are so many others that are bigger,” said Chris Quinn. “But Trump wants us to all think about crime... They’re trying to convince everybody that they can’t step outside their door because of

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