On Tuesday, Biden traveled to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to attempt to "flip the script" on Republicans with a law-and-order campaign message. The theme of Biden's speech was that "the answer is not to defund our police departments - it's to fund our police." Biden's speech certainly involved a lot of flipping. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden was asked whether he supported "redirecting some of the funding for police into social services."
Biden claimed in Wilkes-Barre that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who want to defund the police. He asserted, "We set aside $350 billion for state and local governments all across America, and urged them to use it, like your governor did, to make communities safer. But every single Republican member of Congress - every single one in this state, every single one -voted against the support for law enforcement." [more...]
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