A CBS 17 News fact check from two weeks ago spotlighted the race for a North Carolina Senate seat in which mailers arriving on the same day portrayed current Sen. Sydney Batch as both promising to defund the police and fully fund the police. “If voters are of the mind to check in and view Cheri Beasley’s individual record and what she’s saying … they’re going to find that she is not for defunding the police. “If a lot of voters are saying — again, even the independents — ‘Oh, well, Trump’s basically right, because regardless of what a Democratic candidate says, the Democrats, the general direction, is they’re defunding the police,” he continued.