• “They want reparations because they think the people who do the crime are owed that,” Tuberville said about Democrats as the crowd cheered.
• “Bullshit!” he said in conclusion to his argument.
• Reparations typically refer to financial compensation for African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves, lived through the country’s so-called Jim Crow era.
• Republican have in the 2022 midterms made crime, and holding elected Democrats responsible for increasing numbers, a top issue on the campaign trail.
• On Sunday, Nebraska GOP Rep. Don Bacon said on NBC-TV that he “wouldn’t say it the same way,” but politicians should be “honest that we have a crime problem in our country.”

Tagged: 2022 Mid-Terms