The president and his allies are trying to turn national debate over racism and policing against the party and its 2020 nominee
Donald Trump is “appalled” by calls to “defund the police”. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, called the suggestion “outlandish”. And the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, promised police officers: “Republicans will never turn our backs on you”, in a major Republican pushback against such radical changes.
Calls to reform, defund and abolish the police have been embraced by protesters and activists amid a national upheaval in response to the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, both of whom were African American. But Trump and his Republican allies are seizing on the movement, weaponizing the rallying cry in order to attack Democrats and the party’s nominee, Joe Biden.
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