"No, I don't support defunding the police," Biden told CBS News. "I support conditioning federal aid to police, based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness. And, in fact, are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community."

In a statement to Factcheck.org, spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden is against defunding but supports police reform.

According to PolitiFact, the ad is also misleading because most advocates for defunding the police aren't asking for a police-free state where chaos is rampant.

"If police departments were to disappear, this scenario might be plausible," Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, told PolitiFact. "But short of that, police departments will continue to accept and respond to 911 calls."

A Monmouth University poll released Wednesday showed that most voters aren’t buying Trump’s extreme interpretation of defunding the police, Forbes reported. According to the poll, 77% of the participants in the study believe most activists only want to “change the way police operate,” while 18% believe the goal is to “get rid of police.”

The study found similar results among people who are most likely to support Trump, concluding that 67% of Republicans and 73% of non-college-educated white people believe defunding the police only means “change the way police operate.”

Safvan Allahverdi

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