President-elect Joe Biden told a group of civil rights leaders that calls among progressives to defund the police allowed the GOP to “beat the living hell” out of Democrats during the 2020 election cycle, according to leaked audio that surfaced Thursday. Biden’s remarks came during a virtual meeting attended by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and prominent civil rights leaders, including NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Rev. Promise you,” Biden said in the leaked audio first obtained by The Intercept. Biden told the civil rights leaders “to think about how much do we push between now and Jan. 5” regarding police reform. “There’s no executive authority to do away that.

Source: Fox News December 10, 2020 21:22 UTC