On Wednesday’s “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip said that Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed “does not support defunding the police” and was later hit with a fact-check using CNN’s own reporting on El-Sayed’s support for defunding the police in 2020.
Former Trump official Caroline Sunshine said El-Sayed “wants to defund the police.”
Phillip responded, “I will say El-Sayed didn’t — does not support defunding the police.”
Sunshine responded that he has and now is trying to shift away.
Phillip responded that “he has said that he doesn’t support defunding the police.”
Later in the segment, former New York City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R) said, “I also don’t...
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