Biden Urges Activists to Drop ‘Defund the Police’ Rhetoric Until After Georgia Runoffs
Biden: 'We need those two seats'
Joe Biden / Getty Images Collin Anderson • December 11, 2020 3:08 pm
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President-elect Joe Biden urged a group of activists to remain silent on his "promise" to "change policing" until after Georgia's January Senate runoff elections, arguing that the push could alienate Peach State voters.
"I also don't think that we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they've already labeled us as being ‘defund the police,'" Biden said of Republicans. "Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing—which I promise you will occur, promise you—just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police."