Just saw Kamau Bell on CNN still defending the phrase "defund the police".

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138. Ask Trump if they work, if in kind and with merritt counters do work if the lie is caught quickly

... and responded to with the derision and then deflection or just the plain truth about the candidate.

Trump was very talented at that; derision then deflection

Ask John Kerry in his '04 campaign what he thought he did wrong when he came to the swift boating

To let that Theme about his service go on for months with a huge mistake on his team's part because it took just that much longer for that message to be dug out

Bottom line let's say there is proof that the fund the police was a gating factor in many of the down ballot losses (Proof through exit polls not our opinions) ...

For those down ballot candidates to allow themselves to be defined by their opponents via that slogan without a swift meaningful derisive then deflective counterattack is not good campaigning, that's 04JohnKerry