Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong dodged questions Tuesday about her past support for abolishing the police, offering a pair of winding non-answers when a Politico reporter pressed her on the issue backstage at a primary debate. Hong, a state representative and democrat socialist, was cornered by Politico’s Jonathan Martin in the spin room after the debate. The front-runner in the crowded August 11 Democrat primary has spent recent weeks walking back a record she once promoted openly. The exchange comes as Hong leads the Democrat field at 26 percent in a Marquette Law School poll, backed by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). She has called it “cowardly” for hospitals to stop gender procedures for minors and has called ICE “the enforcers of fascism.”