Sen. Warner Says Calls for ‘Defund the Police’ Led to Democratic Losses

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in a discussion on China's strategy to control technologies of the future in Washington, on June 17, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said he believes that terms like “defund the police” used by progressives to call for police reform had led to Democratic losses in the House in the 2020 election.

“I think the ability, using frank terms like ‘defund the police’ have led to Democratic losses in this last year,” Warner said during an interview on WAMU’s The Politics Hour on Friday.