Republicans employ 'defund the FBI' message in midterm campaigns — and other GOP candidates aren't happy
Raw StoryRepublicans spent a year attacking Democrats saying that they wanted to "defund the police," following a series of police-involved shootings of unarmed people of color. Yet, in wake of the search warrant executed at Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach, Republicans have adopted their own "Defund the FBI" message. New Hampshire congressional candidate Tim Baxter advocated for the FBI to be abolished while fellow candidate Karoline Leavitt called to "investigate, litigate and incarcerate them." At what point do we abolish the Bureau and start over?” Sandy Smith, the GOP nominee in North Carolina’s 1st District, tweeted a poll with "Abolish the FBI" as one of the options. Axios revealed that Rep. Dan Crenshaw called the whole "defund the FBI" message "unserious" and that it made the GOP look bad.
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