The Democrat candidate for New York’s First Congressional District, Bridget Fleming, previosuly called for the consideration of reallocating police funds and has asserted “there is widespread inequity and racial injustice in” government and law enforcement.
Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff, attempting to run as a moderate Democrat in Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District, campaigned with pro-defund the police U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes this week.
The Queens woman allegedly beaten by a homeless ex-convict may lose sight in one eye, and lamented that New Yorkers have tried to avoid becoming targets of violence.
The Milwaukee Police Association (MPA) on Thursday endorsed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for U.S. Senate against “defund the police” candidate Mandela Barnes.
New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez provided reporters with a fake name when he went on an anti-law enforcement tirade, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Wisconsin’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee has launched a probe into “defund police” Democrat Senate candidate Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) for excessive security costs billed to the state.
Deidre DeJear, the Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Iowa, recently received an endorsement from a local organization that has consistently called for defunding the Des Moines police department.
The States Project, a pro-defund police group that rebranded themselves from Future Now after coming under scrutiny in the fall of 2021, announced they would spend $60 million to support Democrats in the state legislative races across the country.
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is urging Democrats to campaign more on gun control as a way to shake the party’s soft-on-crime image.
A poll exclusively obtained by Breitbart News revealed that 77 percent of voters say they would not support a candidate who supports Democrats’ policies of preventing police from effectively dealing with violent crimes.
Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Angie Craig (MN) has attempted to hide her anti-law enforcement history by recently reversing her stance on eliminating qualified immunity for police officers before a tough reelection battle.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that her Restoring Law and Order Act, co-sponsored with Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), would redirect unspent federal funds ostensibly slated to address COVID-19 towards law enforcement.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat, reportedly has an “ongoing problem” with law enforcement, according to the head of the Buckeye States’ top police union.
Katie Hobbs, the Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Arizona, remains silent after the Arizona Police Association (APA) called on her to denounce the “defund the police” positions of two pro-abortion groups that endorse her.
The Young Turks founder and failed Democratic congressional candidate Cenk Uygur was ridiculed for slamming “defund the police” after having expressed full support for the rallying cry following the violent George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020.
Republican Karina Lipsman slammed Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) for claiming to oppose defunding the police despite his voting record showing otherwise and accepting endorsements and campaign contributions from far-left groups that support the movement.
Three city council members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who have voiced support for the defunding police, stumped with the state’s Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, John Fetterman, on Monday.
Vulnerable Virginia Democrat Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is in a tough reelection battle, again tried to erase her anti-law enforcement record with a campaign ad this week.
Onward Together, a nonprofit group started by Hillary Clinton after she lost the 2016 presidential election, funneled $75,000 to a far-left group whose affiliate worked on a failed attempt to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department, Fox News first reported.
Oregon has experienced a “decade of decline” under radical leftist leadership, Drazan told Fox News’s Tammy Bruce on Friday.
The Milwaukee Police Association endorsed on Friday Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday endorsed Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) reelection campaign against defund the police supporter Mandela Barnes.
Decline in support for the “defund the police” movement signals that “racial equity is a tertiary issue,” according to a New York Times op-ed mourning the apparent “death” of the issue, regretting it had not “caught on broadly enough,” and warning Americans will yet “regret” rejecting it.
Beasley tried to distance herself from the Defund the Police movement after receiving negative attention for campaigning with Rep. Cori Bush.
Oakland Police Department Chief LeRonne Armstrong has decried what he calls a “horrific” series of shootings in the city after five people were murder in three days, bringing the total number of homicides this year to 83, near last year’s pace.
Hollywood star Natalie Portman publicly supported defunding the police back in 2020, encouraging politicians to deprive police departments of taxpayer dollars. Now the Oscar-winning actress is benefiting from Baltimore police protection after drug dealers threatened gun violence on the set of her new Apple TV+ series.
The governor and state comptroller of Texas took steps on Tuesday to force Harris County to reinstate millions of dollars stripped from the county’s constable offices or face consequences. The action comes after two constables’ offices filed complaints regarding the police-defunding action taken the county’s commissioners court.
An armed robbery occurred at a New York City coffee shop directly across the street from “Defund the Police” supporter Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán’s office.
Donald Trump-backed Abe Hamadeh, running for Arizona Attorney General, released a statement calling on his general election opponent, Democrat Kris Mayes, to reject her Planned Parenthood endorsement due to the organization’s “Defund the Police” values.
Left-wing activists in New York are pressuring Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pick a judge for the state’s highest court who has never been a prosecutor and will help expand abortion access.
Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) pointed to the seemingly misplaced priorities of congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden by doubling the size of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) barely hung on in Minnesota’s fifth congressional district Democrat primary, defeating centrist Don Samuels by approximately 3,000 votes, according to projections.
Police officers are “quitting or retiring faster than they can be replaced” in big cities across the country — a trend that can, in part, be pegged to radical Democrats’ calls to “Defund the Police,” the Associated Press reported on Monday.
Wisconsin Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes (D), the presumptive Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, spent nearly $600,000 on his police detail over two years, despite being backed by pro-“defund the police” PACs.
Vulnerable Ohio Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur has released campaign ads claiming to be pro-law enforcement, despite her voting record to the contrary and being supported by groups that want to defund the police.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is urging President Joe Biden to campaign against him in Florida in response to the president’s claim that Rubio, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) are against law enforcement after the left spent the last two years calling for defunding the police.
The Texas capital city is suffering from a dramatic shortage of police officers resulting in increased response times to 911 calls — often more than 30 minutes. While the city is struggling to find enough officers to answer calls, the mayor’s security detail remains fully staffed and unaffected.
Rep. Cori Bush (R-MO), one of the remaining Democrats advocating to defund the police, has spent $393,417.67 in campaign cash for private security this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
The City of West Hollywood, California, is employing a man once convicted of manslaughter to help provide security after the city council voted to “defund” four police jobs last month and replace them with unarmed “ambassadors” instead.
State Sen. Zach Nunn (R-IA) said Iowans’ top concerns are parents’ rights with respect to education, inflation and the economy, and crime.
