(Daily Mail) A Colorado Senator came under fire just one day before Election Day after a video emerged showing his wife suggesting Democrats defund the police ‘quietly’ and laughing about the name of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Undercover journalists with Accuracy in Media filmed Susan Daggett, the law professor wife of Sen. Michael Bennet, as she spoke about the Defund the Police movement and the Inflation Reduction Act.
She said in the video that ‘the most successful efforts in Washington DC are the ones that you never see on the front page of the paper’ and told the undercover reporters they should not talk openly about how the Inflation Reduction Act is really a health and climate bill.
The video was then posted on YouTube Monday, just one day before Coloradoans go to the polls to either re-elect Bennet or vote for his opponent, Joe O’Dea, a moderate Republican who is endorsed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Now, with just hours to go before Election Day, the O’Dea campaign is blasting Bennet as a ‘radical’ who, along with other Democrats in Congress, is ‘trying to pull a fast one on the American people.’
But the Bennet campaign has pushed back against the tactics used by the undercover journalists, telling FOX News it was ‘despicable ambush theater.’
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, left, found himself under fire with just one day to go before Election Day after a video emerged showing his wife, Susan Daggett, right, suggesting Democrats defund the police ‘quietly and laughing about the name of the Inflation Reduction Act
Bennet will face Republican challenger Joe O’Dea in the election on Tuesday
Video taken by undercover journalists with Accuracy in Media shows Daggett suggesting Democrats should only speak about Defunding the Police for half a second ‘and then let the temperature come down, and then quietly allocate some funding to mental health, right, and to interventions that could help’
She tells the undercover journalists: ‘The most successful efforts in Washington DC are the ones you never see on the front page of the paper’
In the Accuracy in Media video posted online Monday, Daggett, a law professor at the University of Denver, could be seen standing outside her home one night speaking to a man and a woman.
The man starts off by asking her about the Defund the Police movement, and what she thinks about Democrat messaging on the issue.
‘I think, you know, Michael would say calling it Defund the Police was not the smartest move on the outset because that’ not really what we’re talking about,’ she replies. ‘But everything is partisan, like everything that can become a wedge issue is these days.
‘And so probably the smartest thing to do is just take the temperature down, and you know, just quietly … The most successful efforts in Washington DC are the ones you never see on the front page of the paper.’
Daggett then suggested talking about the issue ‘for half a second and then let the temperature come down, and then quietly allocate some funding to mental health, right, and to interventions that could help, and maybe not call it police reform.
‘There’s just strategically ways to do it that would be just as effective, but you know, not raise the flag.’
At that point, the male interviewer asks her whether that’s the same thing Democrats did with the Inflation Reduction Act, which he said had ‘so many great things,’ while his female companion said there was a lot about the climate in the bill.
Right, don’t talk about it,’ she responds, laughing. ‘Just, just yeah.’
The video ends with Daggett saying she hopes President joe Biden does not run again in 2024.
