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Senate hopeful John Fetterman says he opposes efforts to defund police departments. That could put him at odds with his latest campaign partner, a left-wing political action committee that has called critics of the radical cause "squeamish centrists" and "appeasers."

Brand New Congress, founded by organizers for Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, on Tuesday endorsed Fetterman as a "bold, progressive voice" who if elected will bring "transformational change" to the Senate. The organization also announced a joint fundraising initiative with Fetterman that will split contributions between the PAC and Fetterman's campaign.

Brand New Congress has repeatedly called to defund law enforcement and said it supports progressives who are "unapologetic" in supporting that and other "revolutionary change." The group has urged lawmakers to sign Rep. Cori Bush's (D., Mo.) pledge to defund police and has accused former president Barack Obama of "appeasement" for criticizing the movement's slogan.

Fetterman's support for Brand New Congress could undermine his bid to flip a Republican seat in a purple state. Americans have soured on the defund movement in recent years, with 75 percent of voters in a recent poll saying the movement is responsible for a spike in violent crime. Republicans have attacked Fetterman over his support for progressive criminal justice reform measures. Republican candidate Mehmet Oz has run ads highlighting Fetterman's votes as head of Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons to release convicted murderers from prison. A group of Pennsylvania sheriffs criticized Fetterman's calls to release one-third of all state prisoners and his support for left-wing Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner.

Fetterman defended his record in a series of television ads, including one in which he claimed he "did whatever it took to fund police" as mayor of Braddock, Pa. Fetterman's campaign spokesman recently said the candidate will "never support defunding the police" if elected.

But Fetterman's collaboration with Brand New Congress is part of a pattern of working closely with proponents of the defund movement. He held a pro-abortion rally on the anniversary of 9/11 with Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood and a supporter of the defund movement. Fetterman campaigned last week with three Philadelphia City Council members who have endorsed measures to defund police departments. Fetterman's appointee for secretary of Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons has said she wants to "disarm the police." The official, Celeste Trusty, has also called herself a "friend" and "buddy" of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Brand New Congress, cofounded by Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D., N.Y.), has had limited success since it formed in 2016 to elect candidates in the mold of Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist. The PAC's biggest wins to date have been in helping elect Bush, Ocasio-Cortez, and fellow "Squad" member Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). The PAC has never backed a successful Senate candidate. Besides Fetterman, this year it has endorsed only former Kentucky state representative Charles Booker in his campaign against Sen. Rand Paul. Booker during his failed 2020 Senate campaigncalled for defunding police.

Chakrabarti has come under fire for comparing moderate Democrats to pro-segregation Democrats of the 1940s and for wearing a t-shirt supporting Nazi collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose.

Fetterman's campaign and Brand New Congress did not respond to requests for comment.

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Kentucky Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Charles Booker has already made history. After winning his primary election in June, Booker became the first Black person to be a major party nominee for Senate in the Bluegrass State. Now, Booker is hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul in the November midterm election.

Were on a path to not only beat Rand Paul, but win our future, Booker told theGrio during a recent interview.

The 37-year-old lifelong Kentuckian, who comes from a long line of ministers, was Kentuckys youngest Black state lawmaker when he was elected in 2018. Booker, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Senate nomination in 2020, sees his campaign as an opportunity to make Black history yet again as Kentuckys first elected Black U.S. senator. He also seeks to rise above partisan politics to address issues he believes all Kentuckians can support like halting hate, ending poverty, investing in solid infrastructure, and making health care more affordable.

Booker, who said he is proud of the history hes already made in this race, injects an aspirational and unifying tone familiar to Barack Obama, which earned the former president the kind of broad coalition support Booker will need to win a statewide election in Kentucky. The red state hasnt elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in nearly 25 years and has voted for every Republican presidential candidate since 2000.

My hope is that we can inspire people all over Kentucky, and across the country, to know that their voices matter democracy is still worth fighting for, and that we can defy the odds at a time when division is so high [and] hatred and racism is so high, he said. It would mean a lot to send this type of message for the country.

Growing up in one of the poorest zip codes in one of the most impoverished states in America, Booker said a major focus of his campaign is addressing poverty, which affects hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians, white and Black.

Poverty is generational in Kentucky, declared the Senate nominee, who introduced his Kentucky New Deal agenda to address economic challenges in his state.

The reason why this campaign is so powerful is because were speaking to the issues from a real place, he explained. Im a Type 1 diabetic. Ive had to ration my insulin because we couldnt afford it. And diabetes is not a partisan thing. The challenges of putting food on the table are not actually partisan. And by telling that story, were motivating and mobilizing people that voted for Trump, Bernie Sanders [and those who] never voted before.

While Booker is unifying in his message, he is also not shy to call out his Republican opponent. The Democrat said Paul, the son of a former U.S. congressman and physician, doesnt understand the economic hardships that he and other Kentuckians have endured.

He is someone who is essentially a privileged, spoiled brat, said Booker. He doesnt think he belongs or is responsible to anyone. He doesnt see the struggles that we face because he hasnt lived them. And quite honestly, he has sold us out.

Earlier this year, Booker went viral for a campaign ad invoking the imagery of a noose in which he called Paul out for once comparing expanded health care to slavery, saying he opposed aspects of the Civil Rights Act and voted against a version of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in 2020 at the height of the George Floyd uprisings in protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Paul later co-sponsored a revised version of the anti-lynching bill in 2022 that was signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Rand Paul has built a career out of weaponizing hate and hiding his hand, said Booker, who noted that the Republican lawmaker also voted alongside GOP senators to block a domestic terrorism bill after the mass shooting of nine African Americans inside a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, earlier this year. He doesnt think racism is a problem, and we cant fix what we dont face.

As the United States grapples with political divisions, Booker said the country is currently fighting for healing just as much as were fighting to beat back fascism and secure our pursuit of democracy. He declared that his campaign is building a movement he calls a new Southern strategy.

This campaign is a testament to regular people from the hood, to the holler, I always say folks from the forgotten places, people that have felt like democracy didnt account for them, that justice didnt see them, [or] folks who were sort of accepting the struggles, not realizing that we can move them, that we can change them, said Booker.

A lot is riding on this Novembers elections for Democrats, who are seeking to hold onto their slim majority in Congress, particularly in the Senate. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in recent months have been giving speeches across the country urging voters to elect more Democrats in the Senate in order to eliminate the Senate filibuster and pass Democratic agenda items like voting rights reform and federal abortion rights.

Democrats hope that Senate nominees like Booker will be successful on Nov. 8, which would give them the numbers they need to bypass some of the roadblocks created by conservative Democratic senators like Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

While he supports the Democratic Partys mainstream agenda like abolishing the filibuster and unpacking the Supreme Court, Booker is also leaning in on the nonpartisan items of his Kentucky New Deal to invest in the states infrastructure, create sustainable jobs, putting more money in the pockets of regular people, protecting social security, [and] making sure everyone has quality health care.

We can do those things in very short order by expanding the majority in the Senate, said Booker. Winning this seat, getting rid of Rand Paul and expanding the majority means we can do a lot of good.

Gerren Keith Gaynor is the Managing Editor of Politics and Washington Correspondent at theGrio. He is based in Washington, D.C.

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Divisions on abortion were on display in Congress this week as both the House and Senate returned to Washington, D.C., after a lengthy summer recess.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday introduced a national abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. The proposal drew a quick rebuke from Democrats campaigning on expanded abortion access and disagreement from fellow Republicans who want to leave abortion decisions up to states.

Also this week, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower, testified before Congress that federal regulators are not powerful enough to deal with Big Tech companies like Twitter. And Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) once again squared off with Dr. Anthony Fauci at a Senate hearing.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., accused government health officials of taking a wrong approach in evaluating COVID-19 vaccines by failing to take into account people's previous infections.

The Kentucky Republican then implied that there could be a reason for this. Stating that government vaccine committee members have not disclosed what, if any, royalties they have received from companies that make the vaccines, Paul said that if the GOP takes control of the Senate in November's midterm elections they will investigate the matter.

"We've been asking you and you refused to answer whether anybody on the vaccine committees gets royalties from the pharmaceutical companies," Paul said Wednesday to Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing. "I asked you last time, and what was your response? We don't have to tell you. We've demanded them through the Freedom of Information Act. And what have you said? We're not going to tell you. But I tell you this, when we get in charge, we're going to change the rules and you will have to divulge where you get your royalties from, from what companies, and if anybody in the committee has a conflict of interest, we're going to learn about it. I promise you that."

Fauci responded by saying that those committees are advisory committees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet Paul keeps asking about him.

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Paul responded by saying that Fauci himself has refused to say which companies, if any, gave him royalties, or paid royalties to other scientists.

"They are not my committees," Fauci reiterated, without addressing Paul's claim that Fauci himself has not been transparent.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is stepping down from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (Getty Images)

The discussion of royalties from pharmaceutical companies stemmed from Paul's claim that Fauci and other officials were not following established science because they were ignoring the effects of COVID-19 infections when looking at vaccines. He began his segment by showing an interview Fauci gave in 2004, in which he said regarding the flu that "the best vaccination is to get infected yourself."

Paul asked Fauci why that same idea does not appear to be reflected in the government's approach to COVID-19.

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"Currently, antibody surveys show that 80 percent of children, approximately 80 percent of children, have had COVID, and yet there are no guidelines coming from you or anybody in the government to take into account their naturally acquired immunity," the senator said, adding that death rates from COVID-19 are similar "if not less than that" of the flu.

"So when we look at this, we wonder, you know, why you seemed to really embrace basic immunology back in 2004, how you or why you seem to reject it now," Paul said.

Fauci denied rejecting basic immunology and said he "never denied that there is the importance of the protection following infection." Still, he said the FDA and CDC support the idea that "vaccination following infection gives an added extra boost."

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The problem, Paul said, is that "almost none of your studies from the CDC or from the government have the variable of whether or not you've been previously infected."

"If you ignore whether they've been infected, you're ignoring a vaccine, basically," he added.

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