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Fact check: The GOP's dishonesty-filled barrage of 'defund the police' attack ads
The Defund the Police is one of the most ignorant slogans advanced in 2020. This stupid slogan cost Democrats a number of seats in 2020 and is being used again in 2022. The ads pushing this stupid line of attack have been fact checked
In Texas, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton and the GOP stooge running for Haris County Judge are all using this line of attack
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/politics/fact-check-defund-the-police-ads-2022-midterms/index.html
Republicans have been running ads around the country that use a variety of dishonest tactics to try to create the inaccurate impression that the Democratic candidates they are targeting support defunding the police.
Some of the Republican ads simply make things up. Other ads falsely describe bills the Democratic candidates have supported. Still other ads try guilt by association, noting that the candidates have supporters who have called to defund the police but not mentioning that the candidates themselves have rejected defunding the police.
One particularly egregious guilt-by-association ad accuses a Democrat of marching with a pro-defunding progressive group without providing evidence of the supposed marching and without noting that the event in question was a local “Fun Fest” that took place nearly three years before the group endorsed defunding.
Below is a look at eight deceptive Republican ads that have run in September or October. This is not a comprehensive list
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Some of the Republican ads simply make things up. Other ads falsely describe bills the Democratic candidates have supported. Still other ads try guilt by association, noting that the candidates have supporters who have called to defund the police but not mentioning that the candidates themselves have rejected defunding the police.
One particularly egregious guilt-by-association ad accuses a Democrat of marching with a pro-defunding progressive group without providing evidence of the supposed marching and without noting that the event in question was a local “Fun Fest” that took place nearly three years before the group endorsed defunding.
Below is a look at eight deceptive Republican ads that have run in September or October. This is not a comprehensive list
The GOP also used this line of attack against Sri Preston Kulkarni and several local state house races in 2020.