democrats to turn this around. bret: byron? yeah, these were four messaging bills was that the whole purpose of them to fight the idea that democrats are soft on crime when, in fact, many of them actually soft on crime. not all the measures were that way. one of them got 1450 republican votes. the wanted to give more money to smaller police departments. but others had kind of standard democrat ideas like sending mental health professionals to crime scenes as opposed to police officers. and the idea is democrats can go on the campaign trail and say i voted to fund the police not defund the police republicans are not at all worried about this because they think the whole perception, public s perception of the democrats and crime is set in stone. bret: some big races, democrats are already using that fund the police line in those ads. now, we remember president biden in front of independence hall with that speech about extremist