{"id":36864,"date":"2021-06-24T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36864"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:47:05","slug":"liberals-tone-down-calls-to-defund-police-amid-gop-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36864","title":{"rendered":"Liberals tone down calls to &#8216;defund police&#8217; amid GOP attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Progressives are toning it down on police reform as a growing stack of evidence suggests it is hurting the party with voters.<\/p>\n<p>While a number of liberal Democrats remain opposed to virtually any expansion in law enforcement funding, gone are the days when progressive lawmakers were calling openly for \u201cdefunding the police\u201d \u2014 a message that Republicans used to devastating effect in clobbering House Democrats at the polls in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows it&#8217;s a bad idea,\u201d said one moderate Democratic lawmaker who\u2019s noticed the softer tone this year. \u201cPeople like having police keeping them safe. And I think we had to do a better job of demanding reform, but supporting the police. And we only sang one song&#8221; in 2020.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives are toning it down on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36865,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36864\/revisions\/36865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}