{"id":1768206,"date":"2022-12-08T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768206"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:18:35","slug":"two-incoming-house-dems-want-to-abolish-all-prisons-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-incoming-house-dems-want-to-abolish-all-prisons-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Incoming House Dems Want to Abolish All Prisons in the U.S"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftwo-incoming-house-dems-want-to-abolish-all-prisons-in-the-u-s%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=1768206&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\/12\/Incoming-House-Democrats-want-to-abolish-All-prisons-in-the-US.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Since Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives and gained some new members with far-left policy stances, like abolishing all prisons in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Republicans underperforming in the midterms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/lindsey-graham-definitely-not-a-republican-wave-hats-off-to-democrats\/\">Democrats <\/a>still lost control of the lower house of Congress, setting up a GOP-controlled chamber.<\/p>\n<p>There are now two Democrats within the incoming first-year class who have voiced support for abolishing prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Democrat Rep.-elect Summer Lee, D- Penn is taking over the district of longtime Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is a Democratic socialist backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has openly endorsed several socialist policies, including controversial progressive policies like abolishing prisons and including the redistribution of wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of \u2018thanking\u2019 Black women, Black voters, and especially, Black organizers\u2026 give us the investments we need and deserve, redistribute wealth, ends police violence, abolish the carceral state, commit to building Black directed political power\u2026 and reparations,\u201d Lee tweeted in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Florida gained a young, progressive congressman in the form of Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost, who endorsed the anti-police and anti-prison group Dream Defenders in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Frost\u2019s endorsement of Dream Defenders included a call \u201cfor a prison [and] police-free society.\u201d He also endorsed other far-left groups, including the radical environmental group the Sunrise Movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/elon-musk-says-top-democrats-have-launched-a-coordinated-attack-against-him\/\">Elon Musk Says Top Democrats Have Launched A \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Attack Against Him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frost was endorsed by both Sanders and Warren, as well as several other progressive groups and lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>As Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/incoming-house-democrats-want-abolish-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have seen an uptick in progressive and socialist membership as the party continues to lurch leftward, even in conservative states.<\/p>\n<p>Texas will see a progressive Democrat headed to Washington next Congress, with Rep.-elect Greg Casar \u2014 a self-described democratic socialist who was endorsed by the \u201cSquad\u201d leader herself \u2014 taking a seat to represent parts of Austin and San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive gains will serve Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow \u201cSquad\u201d members well, giving them more leverage in getting their priorities at the front of the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives and gained some new members with far-left policy stances, like abolishing all prisons in the U.S. Despite Republicans underperforming in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1768209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768206","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}