NYC jogger raped hours before Hillary Clinton accuses New York GOP of scaring voters about crime

[Good News]

A female jogger in New York City was raped Thursday by a homeless man
wanted for two sex crimes with at least 25 prior arrests.

The shocking attack on the West Side occurred just hours before former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a Manhattan rally for Democratic
Gov. Kathy Hochul, accused Republicans of trying to scare voters about a
crime wave.

Carl Phanor, 29, was arrested at the Port Authority bus station hours
after the assault, which took place around 5:30 a.m. at Pier 45, the New
York Post reported.

According to law enforcement officials, he grabbed the 43-year-old woman
from behind and choked her until she passed out, then sexually assaulted
her and robbed her.

New York City officials charged Mr. Phanor with rape, grand larceny,
predatory sexual assault and invalid credit card use.

The assault was another of the daily violent crimes plaguing New York and
other cities across the country — part of a crime wave that Republicans
have highlighted in the 2022 midterm campaigns. The GOP is accusing
Democratic leaders, including Mrs. Hochul, of supporting soft-on-crime
policies that they say fuel lawlessness.

Mrs. Clinton disputed the GOP narrative when she joined Vice President
Kamala Harris at the event for Mrs. Hochul, whose campaign has been
scrambling to gain traction in a tightening race against Republican Rep.
Lee Zeldin.

“They don’t care about keeping you safe,” Mrs. Clinton said about
Republicans at the rally at Barnard College. “They want to keep you
scared.”

She went on to say, “I see … ads about crime every 30 seconds,” Mrs.
Clinton said. “No solutions, but just a lot of really fearful, scary
pictures and scary music.”

Mrs. Clinton also reminded Mrs. Hochul‘s supporters of the attack against
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband last week, leaving him with a skull
fracture. She said it showed that Republicans are uncaring toward crime
victims.

“Then a terrible crime happens in San Francisco; an intruder hits an 82-
year-old man in the head with a hammer — who happens to be married to the
speaker of the House — and the Republicans joke about it,” Mrs. Clinton
said.

Mrs. Hochul made a similar remark when she appeared on MSNBC’s
“PoliticsNation” on Sunday and told the host, the Rev. Al Sharpton, that
Republicans were “data deniers.”

“These are master manipulators. They have this conspiracy going all across
America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they’re not as
safe. Well, guess what? They’re also not only election deniers, they’re
data deniers,” she said.

All three Democratic female leaders focused mainly on issues related to
abortion rights and how Mrs. Hochul has the opportunity to become the
first woman to be elected New York governor. She became the first woman to
serve as governor after Andrew Cuomo resigned from office following a
sexual harassment scandal.

Fighting rising crime in New York has been central to Mr. Zeldin’s
campaign platform, and it has helped move the race remarkably close in the
deep-blue state.

Mr. Zeldin inched ahead of Mrs. Hochul with 48.4% to 47.6% in a recent
survey by the Trafalgar Group.

• Kerry Picket can be reached at kpi...@washingtontimes.com.

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