Photo / APBarack Obama has sparked outrage from the progressive wing of his own party after criticising Black Lives Matter's "defund the police" slogan. The former president made the comments in a recent interview where he warned Democrats risked losing voters by using "snappy" slogans like "defund the police". Barack Obama says the Democrats need to give younger voices like AOC a bigger platform and ditch the ‘defund the police’ slogan. pic.twitter.com/mRtgLdWkN4 — SBS News (@SBSNews) December 2, 2020Progressive Democrats, including a group known as "The Squad", immediately hit back at Obama in a series of responses on social media. He warned it may have cost them some candidates including South Carolina Congressman Joe Cunningham, who lost to Republican Nancy Mace.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 03, 2020 00:33 UTC