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Saginaw County's sheriff since 2009, William Federspiel, says he's done with the Democrat Party. His framing: 18 years running as a Democrat sheriff, lifelong Democrat, a Kennedy Democrat the way his grandparents were. They wanted him to leave and he OBLIGED. What pushed him is the left's prison and police agenda. Abolish prisons, defund the police, and his answer is that the conversation needs more about VICTIMS and keeping prisoners in prison. Saginaw County is a real Michigan swing county, so an elected sheriff walking away lands. He took it to national TV and came off going full Mike Rogers mode. On Abdul, who spent years pushing what gets called soft-on-crime policy, Federspiel is a flat NO. The law enforcement in Michigan who deal with criminals daily reject that stuff outright. A Democrat sheriff in a swing county calling out his own party on crime exactly

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Saginaw County's sheriff since 2009, William Federspiel, says he's done with the Democrat Party. His framing: 18 years running as a Democrat sheriff, lifelong Democrat, a Kennedy Democrat the way his grandparents were. They wanted him to leave and he OBLIGED. What pushed him is the left's prison and police agenda. Abolish prisons, defund the police, and his answer is that the conversation needs more about VICTIMS and keeping prisoners in prison. Saginaw County is a real Michigan swing county, so an elected sheriff walking away lands. He took it to national TV and came off going full Mike Rogers mode. On Abdul, who spent years pushing what gets called soft-on-crime policy, Federspiel is a flat NO. The law enforcement in Michigan who deal with criminals daily reject that stuff outright. A Democrat sheriff in a swing county calling out his own party on crime exactly

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