The National Republican Campaign Committee claimed Abigail Spanberger supports defunding the police. She has supported many proposals that would substantially increase federal funding for local police departments.
Among the targets is Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., who has been one of the most outspoken Democratic critics of the"Defund the Police" movement that was rekindled after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The movement calls for reducing funds going to police forces and investing them in community resources, such as social services, youth services and public housing.
Spanberger is in a competitive race this fall against Republican Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor and an auxiliary deputy in the Prince William County Sheriff’s Office. They’re running in the recently redrawnSpanberger, an advocate of abortion rights, has received
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