{"id":1527098,"date":"2022-06-23T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527098"},"modified":"2022-06-23T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:04:12","slug":"stacey-abrams-election-denier-also-denies-she-supported-defunding-police-fact-check-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-election-denier-also-denies-she-supported-defunding-police-fact-check-she-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams, Election Denier, Also Denies She Supported Defunding Police (Fact Check: She Did)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-election-denier-also-denies-she-supported-defunding-police-fact-check-she-did%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/49974424258_b9f44f454d_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who was among the many leftist figureheads touting \u201cdefund the police\u201d amidst the violent 2020 riots, told Axios on Thursday that she never wanted to do exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not, and have never said, and have never supported defunding the police,\u201d Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/atlanta\/2022\/06\/23\/exclusive-stacey-abrams-wants-fund-the-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2006\/15\/nday.04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020<\/a>, however, CNN\u2019s Alisyn Camerota asked Abrams \u201cso yes to some defunding?\u201d in an interview following the killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to reallocate resources, so yes,\u201d said Abrams.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 recent hypocritical statement comes off as a last-ditch effort to win favor among Georgia voters as she attempts to beat incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, whose pro-police platform helped win the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 Atlanta police officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/24\/1009578809\/cops-say-low-morale-and-department-scrutiny-are-driving-them-away-from-the-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quit<\/a> their jobs in 2020, largely due to low morale in the wake of a summer of riots, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlantas-deadliest-year-in-decades-has-city-on-edge-and-demanding-change\/WAF3MV7AVBD2BO2RZVANXDI6E4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">city<\/a> experienced 157 homicides in the same year, a 58 percent uptick.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her newly pro-police funding stance, Abrams is <a href=\"https:\/\/emersonpolling.reportablenews.com\/pr\/georgia-2022-poll-herschel-walker-leads-senator-warnock-49-to-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poised<\/a> to run a tough race against the incumbent governor, with Kemp leading her 51 percent to 44 percent according to Emerson College Polling.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Abrams\u2019 unpopularity also stems from her denying election results for Georgia\u2019s governor in 2018 after losing to Gov. Brian Kemp. She made the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/18\/the-arc-of-stacey-abrams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unfounded<\/a> claim the election was \u201ctainted\u201d when she lost by 1.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams must have figured out she needed to renounce the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement, which proved wildly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/05\/politics\/defund-the-police-democrats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unsuccessful<\/a> for democrats in 2020. Many other Democrats have also gone back on their word and now claim to support our men and women in blue. It is difficult to believe that Abrams wants to support law enforcement after previously running a campaign with a platform so staunchly against them. The hypocrisy of her past and current beliefs makes Abrams\u2019 promises difficult to trust. Both Axios and Abrams hope to fool Georgians, and the country, into forgetting her past anti-police sentiments in hopes that it\u2019s enough to win her a spot in the Georgia governor\u2019s mansion this November.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elise McCue is an intern at The Federalist and student majoring in multimedia journalism and professional and technical writing. She also reports on the Southwest Virginia music scene for The Roanoke Times. You can follow her on twitter @elisemccue or contact her at mccueelise@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who was among the many leftist figureheads touting \u201cdefund the police\u201d amidst the violent 2020 riots, told Axios on Thursday that she never wanted to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}