For president struggling on protests, ‘defund the police’ is a gift – By Howard Kurtz (FOX News) / June 10 2020
Virtually everything has been going against President Trump in recent weeks, but he just caught a major political break.
With the exception of a rebounding stock market, Trump has been battered politically by a raging pandemic, a calamitous economic shutdown, and two weeks of protests over the killing of George Floyd that have spread from the largest cities to the smallest towns.
He has been castigated by a slew of former military men — from Jim Mattis and Mike Mullen to Colin Powell — while drawing sharp criticism from the Catholic archbishop and the Episcopal bishop of Washington.
And in a spate of polls, Trump is getting low marks for handling the protests, and slipping behind Joe Biden by anywhere from 7 to 14 points.
But now comes a phrase that could transform the debate: defund the police.
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