Jim Jor­dan pre­dicts crime will hob­ble Biden in Novem­ber: ‘Still a big issue’

Rep. Jim Jor­dan (R‑OH) sees urban crime as dan­ger­ous to Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s reelec­tion prospects as homi­cide and theft con­tin­ue to plague America’s largest cities.
House Repub­li­cans have spent months high­light­ing the cri­sis at the south­ern bor­der. Stub­born­ly low approval rat­ings on the econ­o­my have also weighed down the pres­i­dent.
But Jor­dan, the chair­man of the Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee, has con­tin­ued to high­light a third issue, one that dogged Democ­rats for much of the last elec­tion cycle: pub­lic safe­ty.
The pan­el has held a series of hear­ings on the “vic­tims of vio­lent crime.” On Fri­day, Jor­dan brought law­mak­ers to Philadel­phia to speak with the fam­i­lies of slain offi­cers who blamed the city’s pro­gres­sive dis­trict attor­ney for their deaths.
The focus is a bit of an aber­ra­tion for House Repub­li­cans. That is, in part, because homi­cides, which …