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| Rep. Clyburn: 'Defund The Police' Killed Democrats |
| 2020-11-12 |
| [HOTAIR] Rep. James Clyburn is the House Majority Whip. Yesterday he told Axios that "defund the police" and other progressives slogans cost Democrats seats in the House and Senate. "We were not able to discipline ourselves according to voter sentiment," Clyburn told Axios news hound Alexi McCammond. He continued, "We keep making that mistake. This foolishness about, ’You got to be this progressive or that progressive.’ That phrase — ’defund the police’ — cost Jaime Harrison tremendously." Asked directly if he was blaming progressive members for Democrats’ losses, Clyburn said he wasn’t doing that but added, "I want everyone in my caucus to be as practical as I am. That’s the difference here." He then offered this advice on how to do things differently, "Stop sloganeering. Sloganeering kills people. Sloganeering destroys movements. Stop sloganeering. And let’s go about the business of representing people and building hopes and aspirations for people." Again, he’s talking about "defund the police" and the movement he’s worried about is Black Lives Matter. Later he explained that if you ask someone about that slogan "they will explain that’s not what we mean." But according to Clyburn, "the moment you start explaining what you mean, you’re losing the argument." Clyburn is far from the only person pointing to that particular slogan as a problem for Democrats. Politico published a piece today in which losing Democratic Senator Doug Jones complained he’d been in the same boat as Jaime Harrison: "We’re not some demonic cult like we’re portrayed to be," said Jones. "I was fighting the same battle that Jaime Harrison was fighting, that Mike Espy was fighting, that Cal Cunningham was fighting, that Steve Bullock was fighting. And Democrats have not been able to fully counter the Republican narrative."... "It ain’t over," said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), who offered to go to Georgia to explain to voters that Democrats don’t agree with liberal activists on everything. "I don’t want anyone to think that I am trying to defund the police."... "We always look at how we can do things better. But the map was the map," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), a close Schumer ally. "None of our candidates are supporting defunding the police, socialism. But we still got tagged by it. So the question becomes: How do you rise above that?" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Souljah -- remember? Are you lying again, or are you just stupid? |
| Posted by: Clyde and Tenille4091 2020-11-12 15:46 |
| #1 So the question becomes: How do you rise above that?" What an idiotic statement. You rise above by speaking out against it...fool. You do that now only after it caused you some seats only proving that you have no strongly held beliefs other than power at any cost. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2020-11-12 12:51 |