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(303,497 posts)right.
Allison Spanberger District 7 VA on the ground report. on the front lines..
This Democratic congresswoman just spoke some hard truth to her party
She went on to highlight two main reasons for Democrats " los[ing] members who shouldn't have lost":
1) The pervasiveness of the "defund the police" message
"The number one concern in things that people brought to me in my [district] that I barely re-won, was defunding the police. And I've heard from colleagues who have said 'Oh, it's the language of the streets. We should respect that.' We're in Congress. We are professionals. We are supposed to talk about things in the way where we mean what we're talking about. If we don't mean we should defund the police, we shouldn't say that."
2) The talk of socialism
Read more at the link..
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/politics/abigail-spanberger-house-democrats-2020-election/index.html