Thursday, July 09, 2020

Public Knows "Defund Police" Doesn't Mean Eliminate Them


The chart above reflects the results of a recent Monmouth University Poll -- done between June 26th and 30th of a national sample of 867 adults, with a 3.3 point margin of error.

Recently, Donald Trump has been running an ad saying Biden (and Democrats) want to defund the police. The ad says that police will no longer be available if you are a victim of crimes, because Biden and the Democrats will eliminate the police.

Trump has nothing to run on as far as accomplishments, because he has accomplished nothing positive for the country -- and the polls show the voters know that. So he is trying something else. He hopes to scare people into voting for him.

Fortunately, most people are not as stupid as Trump thinks they are -- at least those outside of his "deplorable" base. Note in the chart above that only 18% think "defund police" means to eliminate the police. But 77% know that it just means changing the way police operate.

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