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deadliest cities, which have one thing in common, the color blue, deep blue. >> higher murder rates and crime rates are what drives up state crime rates. take louisiana, for example. murder rates in shreveport, baton rouge, new orleans all run by democratic mayors, of course, have a collective murder rate over three times the rest of louisiana, but that drove up the state's rate by 41%. to your point, in stark contrast with counties with higher rates of gop voters, slower growth in the horrible homicide rate and lower rates to begin with. so it is a farce when you listen to someone like hochul talk about here is where it is really dangerous. what you have to dig in and lean in to understand so you can articulate those points so you know how to vote. the 50 largest cities, homicide rates are 60% higher than in blue ones. you are safer in a red city than in a blue one.
it's 52% in kentucky and 52% in louisiana. and republicans who can't stop talking about repeal, they are not doing too well. take louisiana governor bobby jindal. here's what he said about the law. >> every governor's got two critical decisions to make. in louisiana we're not doing either one of those things. i don't think it makes sense to do those. we don't need the government running our health care. >> full repeal and full replace are the better way to go. >> "the new york times" finds governor jindal has got a negative 14% job approval. i wonder if blocking health care to people was a factor. he's refused the medicaid expansion in louisiana, denying 242,000 people insurance. senator mary landrieu's even calling it the jindal gap. and a local paper says taking
planet. the country, i believe, is already there. they understand that climate change is happening, and if the republican party wants to keep nominating people that are questioning the science and in some instances electing people who keep questioning the science, then that's going to be one more thing that is going to hasten the demise, the end, of the republican party. >> and again, i don't hear no loud establishment voices, not any, abby, from established republicans. i mean, what are we going to debate, whether the earth is round next? the gop candidates in this election are also very far on the right in women's issues. candidates in colorado, arkansas, montana, north carolina, georgia, iowa, michigan, and louisiana have all backed personhood amendments, which would essentially ban abortion, not that long ago this
it's a function of the seats up, the retirements and so forth, but i think this mantra of repeal and replace isn't really playing as strongly as it used to. particularly since they haven't come up with a replacement at this point. >> you know, governor, let's go back to governor jindal for a minute. the new york times spoke to a louisiana voter for the poll, and the voter said, "i'm a republican, but i'm tired of them saying repeal, repeal, repeal. they need to make it better." the people in governor's jindal's own party don't buy his own argument. how bad is that, governor? >> it's real bad. number one, they are sick and tired of them playing games and the 51 repeal votes are viewed by the american public as just nothing more than a political game, and number two, they are tired of the republican party obsessing about this health care law and not doing anything about the central problem facing america, and that's creating more jobs.