{"id":1649668,"date":"2022-09-20T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649668"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:51:52","slug":"poll-minnesota-voters-want-anti-cop-ag-keith-ellison-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-minnesota-voters-want-anti-cop-ag-keith-ellison-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Minnesota Voters Want Anti-Cop AG Keith Ellison Out"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpoll-minnesota-voters-want-anti-cop-ag-keith-ellison-out%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=1649668&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Blue state turns on progressive AG as crime spikes<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKeith Ellison \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 September 20, 2022 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Minnesota voters want to oust Democratic attorney general Keith Ellison, according to a new poll, a sign that the blue state is souring on the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<p>Voters favor Ellison\u2019s Republican challenger Jim Schultz by more than 3 points, a Trafalgar Group <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MN-Gen-Poll-Report-0918.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> released last week found. Ellison, a former deputy Democratic National Committee chairman, has stoked anti-cop sentiment since taking office in 2019.\u00a0 If elected, Schultz would be Minnesota\u2019s first Republican attorney general since 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz\u2019s lead could signal voters\u2019 frustration with Ellison\u2019s soft-on-crime policies. Murders reached an all-time high in Minnesota last year, and violent crime is up more than 20 percent. Ellison has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/why-im-running-for-attorney-general\/600135623\/?refresh=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backed<\/a> a plan to abolish Minneapolis\u2019s police department and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/keith-ellison-blames-police-for-damage-from-george-floyd-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed<\/a> cops for damage rioters caused after the killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis City Council voted to defund its police department by $8 million in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the poll\u2019s results were a referendum on Ellison\u2019s approach, a spokesman for the attorney general\u2019s office told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> the question was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; and should be directed to Ellison\u2019s campaign. The campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Trafalgar Group poll also found around 54 percent of likely voters in Minnesota disapprove of how Joe Biden is &#8220;handling his job as president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Blue state turns on progressive AG as crime spikes  Keith Ellison \/ Getty Images  Josh Christenson \u2022 September 20, 2022 4:40 pm Minnesota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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-1649668","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\/1649668","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649668\/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=1649668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}