On Dec. 12, 2023, after a rash of car break-ins in Asheville, Chuck Edwards tweeted, “With more than 40 cars broken into in Asheville on Sunday morning alone, it’s time that local leaders acknowledge that there is a crime problem in Asheville and Buncombe County.”
On April 23, two people broke into the Ingles convenience store on Tunnel Road and shot up the store’s doors, surveillance cameras and safe with AR-15 rifles. From Edwards? Crickets. He didn’t seem to think this warranted pointing fingers Asheville’s way, and one has to wonder if it’s because the narrative Edwards and his Republican comrades like to push is that “Democratic-run” cities are rife with crime only if said crime doesn’t include the guns they profit off of.
Edwards has been quick to tweet about crimes happening outside the confines of NC-11 and North Carolina when they suit his political agenda.
On March 12, at 7:32 a.m., the New York Post tweeted out a story with the headline, “Illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged in wrong-way crash that killed Missouri boy.” Never mind that the U.S. Department of Transportation reports that an average of 43,000 Americans are killed every year in car accidents (and statistically, the majority of those fatal accidents involving another party are caused by American drivers), Edwards retweeted the Post’s story at 9:19 a.m. because it fell in line with the immigrants-cause-crime agenda he’d like to propagate.