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On Tuesday, voters will head to the polls to decide more than just the midterm federal elections.
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voters → head → elections
In over 30 states, there are attorney general races that will decide far more than just the control of congressional gridlock.
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that → be → gridlock
One thing is clear in the over 100 polls I have seen since Labor Day: people do not like crime or socialism.
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people → see → crime
When races focus on federal issues, we lose momentum.
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we → focus → momentum
When we focus on making our communities safer, Republicans gain momentum.
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Republicans → focus → momentum
This is a large reason why historically Republican attorney general candidates outperform the top of the ticket by at least 3 points — the equivalent of what Vegas yields for home-field advantage in a college football game.
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Vegas → outperform → game
It is rooted in something most political nerds learned in high school civics or freshman political science classes, if you recall the CliffsNotes of Plato’s The Republic.
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you → root → Republic
Plato surmised basic man gave up basic freedom for basic security.
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man → surmise → security
The generalization is why voters have preferred Republican attorney general candidates regardless of political winds for decades.
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voters → prefer → decades
The only states where I have seen Democrats outperform Republicans in attorney general races are the ones where Democratic candidates are trying to wear a Republican Halloween mask to trick voters into believing they are neither political nor soft on crime.
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they → see → crime
In some states, such as Michigan and Minnesota, I have seen Republicans outperform the top of the ticket by more than 7 points because of abysmal records on various forms of fraud, waste, and letting violent criminals harm women and children.
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criminals → see → women
In Michigan, the Democratic candidate for attorney general is an unabashed Soviet-style socialist who took his honeymoon to Moscow and has allowed violent criminals, including those who would make Freddy Krueger blush, out on get out of jail free cards while murders in his liberal community skyrocketed 300%.
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murders → take → community
In Minnesota, the Democratic attorney general is the poster child for radical left-wing policies from helping Somali fraudsters to going silent as Somali gangs shoot up churches and schools.
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gangs → help → churches
In New York, a Republican upstart is giving a well-heeled political creature of an attorney general a run for her money in a state where no one gave Republicans a chance just four weeks ago before a turning point of a debate.
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one → give → debate
The entire absurdity of the liberal no-cash-bail movement and Democrats’ need to build trust with violent criminals will hopefully be the Achilles’ heel for Democratic attorney general candidates this November.
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absurdity → build → candidates
In 2026, the contrast between radically soft-on-crime Democratic attorneys general and commonsense Republican attorney general opponents is likely worth a similar margin as public safety transcends other polling numbers and analytics.
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safety → transcend → numbers