Democrat Rep. Cori Bush has handed the Republican Party a huge gift ahead of the midterms, going on record to tell her fellow Democrats that she refuses to stop using the politically toxic slogan “defund the police.”
Many political analysts have attributed the Democrats’ losses in Congress in 2020 to the “defund the police” slogan, claiming that it is largely responsible for the 50-50 split in the Senate that led to Joe Manchin being the most powerful man in Washington, D.C., and for the Democrats having such a slim margin in the House of Representatives.
As crime continues to skyrocket in Democrat-run cities that have embraced the “defund the police” movement, Democrats will continue to face losses — if they continue to let themselves be associated with that slogan. Unfortunately for them, Rep. Cori Bush refuses to let it go. As a member of “The Squad,” she has a lot of power over the media coverage of the Democrat platform, even though she is one of the lesser-known squad members. If Nancy Pelosi and other members of Democrat leadership can’t rein her in before the midterms, their hopes of maintaining control over Congress are gone.
“I always tell fellow Democrats, ‘If you all had fixed this before I got here, I wouldn’t have to say these things,” Bush said.
“Defund the police’ is not the problem,” she claims, despite obvious evidence to the contrary.
“We dangled the carrot in front of people’s faces and said we can get it done and that Democrats deliver, when we haven’t totally delivered,” Bush continued.
“If Republicans take the majority, it’s just done as far as trying to get the legislation across,” she added.
When questioned about whether Democrats were asking her to stop using the slogan so they could stand a chance in the midterms, Bush responded: “Oh, absolutely.”
“I’ve had colleagues walk up to me and say that defund the police doesn’t help in their districts,” she added.
My colleagues keep telling us to wait.
They keep telling us defunding the police and investing in communities won’t work.
Well their policies keep ending up with police murdering Black people.
Enough patronizing. Listen to the movements that are telling you how to save lives.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) February 5, 2022
“If we couldn’t get George Floyd done back when millions of people were marching in the street, then how do we expect to get more than one thing done on policing over the next few years,” she said when discussing breaking up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into smaller pieces that can pass as many want to do rather than try and fail again on a big bill.
Axios: “Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) says she's not going to stop using the slogan ‘defund the police’ ahead of this fall's midterms — even though some of her colleagues have made that request” https://t.co/Qj2tysdU4H
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 9, 2022
