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Oregon Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner is following other members of her party by trying to distance herself from the “defund the police” movement, despite her previous support for pro-defund the police groups. 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon slammed Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s support for the Defund the Police movement during a debate Thursday in Michigan.

Washington Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley slammed her opponent Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) for her “soft-on-crime, bad policies” that have been destructive to the Evergreen State.

Former Arizona Democrat state Sen. Kirsten Engel, running for Arizona’s open Sixth Congressional District, appears to have a long history of supporting defunding the police.

Derrick Van Orden said Brad Pfaff, his Democrat opponent, will not protect women and children from child rapists and murderers.

With violent crime on the rise across the United States, it is emerging as the deciding issue in the 2022 midterm elections, with a new poll finding that an overwhelming majority of Americans view crime as a major problem. 

Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) defended her calls to defund the police by saying “we can’t get caught up in words” Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

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.