RANDOM ACT OF JOURNALISM: MSNBC Admits Defunding Police Hurts Dems

July 7th, 2021 4:00 PM

It's not often that the left-wing media openly admit Democrats are on the losing side of an issue. That’s why we here at NewsBusters are always happy to report on it when it happens. During a segment on Morning Joe, MSNBC’s political analyst Elise Jordan exposed viewers to a rare moment of honesty, not something that viewers of the leftist cable channel are accustomed to seeing.

While discussing the results of New York City’s Democratic Mayoral primary in which the more moderate candidate Eric Adams emerged victorious, co-host Joe Scarborough observed: "Democratic primary voters in Queens, in the Bronx, Staten Island, in Brooklyn, responded by electing the most conservative candidate they could elect. A former cop who is not going to do what a lot of people on the far left have been asking for over the past few years." That of course a reference to the defund the police effort being pushed by the radical base of the party.

 

 

In response, Jordan warned:

Joe, defund the police is a losing message for Democrats. We see that in this race, and we're going to see it in other races, where, you know, as Americans are responding to increase of crime in their communities, and you look at what happened in New York City and it played out on the ground here among some of the most liberal voters in the country, but they want a safe city, and they want the police to be adequately funded. They're not asking for overkill. We don't need to have military vehicles in our downtown cities. We don't need to, you know, have a militarized police force but we don't want to abolish the police completely, and the concept of defund the police, just the radicalism of what it would mean in theory, it scares Democratic voters. It scares enough of them where it's going to hurt the party if they don't get their messaging straight on it.

Given the outcome of the 2020 election, where Democrats were expected to increase their majority in the House of Representatives and considered to be on track to gain a clear majority in the Senate, many analysts like Jordan believe support for defunding the police and the radical “Black Lives Matter” movement has already hurt the Democratic Party.

As a result, Republicans shocked political prognosticators by picking up 14 seats in the House of Representatives, including two seats in Hispanic-heavy Miami-Dade County which nobody expected Republicans to win. These upsets are widely blamed on the Democratic Party’s support of defunding the police. It turns out that people of all races and backgrounds want to live in safe communities.

So it's no surprise that MSNBC is trying to push the Democratic Party away from the brink of ruin after seeing what happened last year at the congressional level.

This rare moment of honesty on MSNBC is brought to you by Allstate and Expedia.

To read the relevant transcript click "expand": 

Morning Joe

7/7/2021

6:05 AM 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, and Elise Jordan, you can look at what happened in New York City, of course look at what happened to the Democratic Primary in 2020. Ah, Joe Biden, really the one moderate in the entire field. I think most people would say, ended up winning the race, and you look at the crime sprees that are going across the United States right now. Crime rates going up. Certainly rates for murder and violent crimes going up. Gun crimes going up. And boy, there sure are a lot of parallels, it seems, with what we saw back in the 1970s and Democrats, Democratic primary voters in Queens, in the Bronx, Staten Island, in Brooklyn, responded by electing the most conservative candidate they could elect. A former cop who is not going to do what a lot of people on the far left have been asking for over the past few years.

ELISE JORDAN: Joe, defund the police is a losing message for Democrats. We see that in this race, and we're going to see it in other races, where, you know, as Americans are responding to increase of crime in their communities, and you look at what happened in New York City and it played out on the ground here among some of the most liberal voters in the country, but they want a safe city, and they want the police to be adequately funded. They're not asking for overkill. We don't need to have military vehicles in our downtown cities. We don't need to, you know, have a militarized police force but we don't want to abolish the police completely, and the concept of defund the police, just the radicalism of what it would mean in theory, it scares democratic voters. It scares enough of them where it's going to hurt the party if they don't get their messaging straight on it.