Byron Donalds calls on Trump to pressure Harris over her ‘soft stance on crime’

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida argued that former President Donald Trump could achieve great success by running a campaign against crime and Vice President Kamala Harris's record on it.

Trump is currently making campaign stops in swing states to host counter-programs for the Democratic National Convention. One of his stops was in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday. The former president warned that voters would see “unprecedented levels of crime” if Harris is elected president. Donalds encouraged voters to continue to push this plan.

“Their record on crime is actually very lenient,” Donalds said on Fox News. Jesse Watters Primetime. “She fought for bail for rioters during the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis during the Summer of Love. She even introduced a bill in the Senate to encourage states to adopt a cashless bail system, which will make every city in our country significantly less safe because cities like my former hometown of New York City have switched to cashless bail. It's been a disaster for the city of New York and so many other major cities; that's her record.”

Donalds also argued that there has been a sharp increase in crime rates in the wake of COVID-19, refuting Democrats who have claimed that crime has decreased. He claimed that those who argue that crime is not a major problem make that assessment “based on their increased increase in crime rates under the Biden-Harris regime.”

Referring to Trump's anti-crime campaign, Donalds suggested that the former president should organize events with victims, noting that some of those victims were at the Republican National Convention and talking about “the failures” of Harris and President Joe Biden while reflecting on “the successes” of Trump.

“That's why there will be an easy decision in November when this is all over and the matter is over and people calm down and start looking at the political outcomes between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,” Donalds said.

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Donalds defended the former president on Tuesday for his visit to Howell, Michigan, and dismissed suggestions that Trump chose the city to attract voters sympathetic to white nationalists. Last month, a group of pro-Nazis were seen in the city carrying swastika banners with the message “We love Hitler.” But Donalds said he did not want to be associated with them, “and neither does President Trump.”

Trump's next rally is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and will take place in North Carolina, a state he won in the 2020 presidential election but where the race is currently neck and neck.