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    Ad Links Warnock to ‘Defunding the Police’

    by D'Angelo Gore Nov 25, 2020 3 minutes

    A conservative group’s deceptive TV ad suggests that Democrat Raphael Warnock supports defunding the police. He has said multiple times that he doesn’t.

    The ad, from the American Crossroads super PAC, features Harris County, Georgia, Sheriff Mike Jolley accusing Warnock of being against police officers.

    “Warnock is an anti-police extremist,” Jolley says in the ad, which debuted Nov. 24. “That’s why he’s backed by defund the police radicals. Defunding the police is crazy.

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