Crime may prove to be the deciding factor in the race to fill the open congressional seat in western Michigan.
“There have been four recent shootings in Grand Rapids. People don’t feel safe,” said Republican nominee John Gibbs in an Oct. 7, 2022, sit-down interview with The Epoch Times.
“I believe the explosion of violence across America is a result of the Democrat policies of defunding the police and cashless bail.”
Gibbs alleges his Democrat opponent, Hillary Scholten, is “soft on crime.”
In a written statement to The Epoch Times, Gibbs’s campaign alleged that Scholten gave hundreds of dollars to the Progressive Women’s Alliance of West Michigan and to Equity PAC, both of which “support defunding the police.”…