The red-blue divide over murder rates isn't just about politics California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been making the case that "red" states — those that voted for Donald Trump — have higher murder rates than "blue" states that supported President Biden in the 2020 election. "You can't make this stuff up. Eight of the top ten murder states, in terms of the increase in murder rates, are all red states," he said in a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen. CDC data shows that in 2019, eight of the top 10 states voted for Trump; in 2020, seven of the top 10 did. The report said the gap in murder rates between red and blue states has widened, from a low of nine percentage points in 2003 and 2004 to a high of 44 percentage points in 2019. But there's an interesting pattern when you look at the top 10 states. Experts question whether politics, as opposed to social conditions, is a deciding factor in the high homicide rates — though, of course, social conditions can be reflected in the politics of a state. Click to read our full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Which has more crime, Bragg's Manhattan or Jordan's Mansfield? Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is going to Manhattan on Monday to lead a hearing that will focus on crime in New York. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has drawn the ire of Jordan, a fierce defender of former president Donald Trump, for indicting Trump on felony charges related to his role in hush money payments to an adult-film star and a Playboy model. New York is a big city — Manhattan alone has 1.6 million people — and horrific crimes can happen there. Jordan represents a rural district in Ohio, and its biggest city is Mansfield, located midway between Columbus and Cleveland. The population there is below 50,000. But when crime numbers are adjusted for population, in many cases Mansfield does not fare well in comparison to Manhattan. Click to read our full report. Also of note: Parsing Clarence Thomas's statements on the gifts he didn't disclose Click to read the analysis. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other fact checks on guns. | 
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