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New York’s Working Families Party Hires Co-Directors Who Want to Defund the Police

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New York Police Department officers form a line inside of an area being called the “City Hall Autonomous Zone” established by demonstrators to protest the New York Police Department in support of “Black Lives Matter” near City Hall in New York City, July 1, 2020.

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After watching a handful of Biden district U.S. House seats swing toward Republicans during the 2022 midterms, New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs seemed to have a clear-eyed assessment of how his own party erred.

“This was an issue-driven election,” Jacobs said in a postelection interview. “And I think that the issue was crime.”

Audrey Fahlberg

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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