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Democrat Congressmen all over the US are not going along with BLM and other leftwing radicals on their senseless calls for police to be defunded. Sure, some Democrat nitwits (DeBlasio-New York, Garcetti-LA, Minneapolis city council) have defunded their cops, but their positions aren't getting much support overall.
For Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic candidate trying to unseat GOP Sen. Joni Ernst in a state President Trump won by 9 points in 2016, the media’s focus over the past few months on the country’s violent racial unrest and demands to defund the police, are a heavy weight pulling in the wrong direction.
A new Pew Research Center national poll, conducted June 16-22 and released this week, found that 73% of respondents thought local police funding should stay about the same or be increased, while 42% of African Americans and 21% of whites favored cutting it.
Greenfield is not alone in trying to side-step the defund-the-police movement. “I do not support defunding the police,” said Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat facing off against GOP combat veteran John James, when first asked about his position on the issue in early June.
Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat considered the most vulnerable Democrat this cycle, said, “I don’t think that’s a good idea. Defunding and disbanding is not something I would ever, ever support.” Several other Democratic challengers in close swing-state Senate contests, also have rejected the defund-the-police movement, while supporting nuanced reforms.
“This is not the approach we need,” Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut challenging GOP Sen. Martha McSally in Arizona, said in mid-June. Cal Cunningham, the Democratic challenger leading North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis by 10 points in a recent CNBC poll, in mid-June said, “Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.”
BUT, with all the opposition to police defunding (Get ready for the BIG ONE right here) >> Guess who has just moved in the opposite direction > from opposing defunding police, to SUPPORTING IT. None other that Democrat presidential candidate JOE BIDEN. That's right. Jumbled Joe, once again, has uttered some words that has everyone scratching their heads, and wondering how this guy ever got to be a serious candidate.
In an interview with the left-wing outlet This Now, Biden said the police are over-militarized and “become the enemy” when they go into neighborhoods in armored, military-style Humvees. He also clarified in the same interview, that he would “absolutely” be willing to direct police funds elsewhere to mental health care, affordable housing and other Democratic priorities. Wow. Maybe, they should have locked him up in the basement a bit longer.
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For Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic candidate trying to unseat GOP Sen. Joni Ernst in a state President Trump won by 9 points in 2016, the media’s focus over the past few months on the country’s violent racial unrest and demands to defund the police, are a heavy weight pulling in the wrong direction.
A new Pew Research Center national poll, conducted June 16-22 and released this week, found that 73% of respondents thought local police funding should stay about the same or be increased, while 42% of African Americans and 21% of whites favored cutting it.
Greenfield is not alone in trying to side-step the defund-the-police movement. “I do not support defunding the police,” said Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat facing off against GOP combat veteran John James, when first asked about his position on the issue in early June.
Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat considered the most vulnerable Democrat this cycle, said, “I don’t think that’s a good idea. Defunding and disbanding is not something I would ever, ever support.” Several other Democratic challengers in close swing-state Senate contests, also have rejected the defund-the-police movement, while supporting nuanced reforms.
“This is not the approach we need,” Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut challenging GOP Sen. Martha McSally in Arizona, said in mid-June. Cal Cunningham, the Democratic challenger leading North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis by 10 points in a recent CNBC poll, in mid-June said, “Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.”
BUT, with all the opposition to police defunding (Get ready for the BIG ONE right here) >> Guess who has just moved in the opposite direction > from opposing defunding police, to SUPPORTING IT. None other that Democrat presidential candidate JOE BIDEN. That's right. Jumbled Joe, once again, has uttered some words that has everyone scratching their heads, and wondering how this guy ever got to be a serious candidate.
In an interview with the left-wing outlet This Now, Biden said the police are over-militarized and “become the enemy” when they go into neighborhoods in armored, military-style Humvees. He also clarified in the same interview, that he would “absolutely” be willing to direct police funds elsewhere to mental health care, affordable housing and other Democratic priorities. Wow. Maybe, they should have locked him up in the basement a bit longer.
Defund-Police Push Has Key Dem Candidates on Defense | RealClearPolitics
For Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic candidate trying to unseat GOP Sen. Joni Ernst in a state President Trump won by 9 points in 2016, the medias focus...
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