Progressive Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn snapped that she wouldn’t engage in “cable news talking points” as she refused to address old, since-deleted “defund the police” tweets brought up during a Sunday night interview by MS NOW anchor Catherine Rampell.
Behn is currently running for the vacant congressional seat in the state’s 7th district, with the special election set to be held on December 2. President Donald Trump won the deep red district by +22 points during the 2024 presidential election, but the Democratic Party is still hoping to take it, even dispatching former Vice President Kamala Harris to canvass voters.
In a late Sunday interview on The Weekend, however, Rampell offered Behn the chance to “clarify” her stance on law enforcement as she displayed several now-deleted tweets from 2020 on screen, in which the Democrat called for defunding of police…