Elena Moore: 1 position and the words behind it

Hong's past comments on policing and Thanksgiving, more than her broader agenda, decided her narrow defeat.

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Hong faced a barrage of negative press in the election's final days, after six-year-old social media posts surfaced in which she called to defund and abolish the police and 'cancel Thanksgiving.'

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