Fox News' Will Cain sits down with Westmoreland sheriff to discuss departmental changes.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Pete the two officers shot
during protests in Louisville on
Wednesday were r, just the
latest case of officers facing
violent attacks for simply
wearing their uniform,
and the lack of opposition from
the left has many in the law
enforcement community feeling
abandoned
will
will in fact its forcing some
sheriffs to reconsider their
political party and shift from
Democrat to Republican.
I spoke to one of them this
week.
What more Land County sheriff
James Albert has been making
changes in the department since
taking over in January.
We have definitely added
training.
Will he has updated the design
of apartment patch
dont tread on me. Doesnt seem
like the symbol of a lifelong
democrat
thats. Why im a Republican
now
laughter
will? Is he modifying his
political party going from a
Democrat which he ran as to a
Republican?
I always considered myself a
conservative democrat. As the
time went on and the party moved
to the left I started to see. I
was more in line thinking as a
Republican
will, in his more than 40 year
career in law enforcement.
Sheriff Albert has stuck to the
blue side of the aisle.
When you were a detective, how
did you vote
democratic Party?
Will when you ran for district
judge, which ticket did you run
on
Democrat Republican? Can you
cross file
democratic ticket?
Will when you ran as sheriff?
What ticket did you run on
Democrat?
Will how many years were you a
Democrat
all of my life until this
past Monday?
Will the sheriff shift appears
to have been embraced by
colleagues, including the
departments Union president?
Did it concern you his move?
No,
he is very open,
very prounion and very much
conservative.
Will the Westmoreland County
Sheriffs Department is an arm
of the Pennsylvania Courts.
They also act as backup to the
police departments like when
protests against police
brutality hit the state
the past few months with the
goings on in the news media with
the protests, the riots, the
looting burning, assaults on
law enforcement and the silence
of the Democratic Party was
deafening.
Will at least seven sheriffs
across the nation have switched
their political party since two thousand and seventeen
and Sheriff Albert says he
wouldnt be surprised if more
make the move.
I received a number of phone
calls from sheriffs across
Pennsylvania and they notified
me. Some of them have that they
are switching from the Democrat
to the Republican Party also,
and I think its happening
often
will so could the Pennsylvania
Sheriffs Party switch, be an
indicator how this swing state
may vote in November.
I believe that Pennsylvania
will vote for President Trump
will. You are a lifelong
Democrat in Pennsylvania?
Were you always sceptic call of
Joe Biden,
I think more recently,
I thought he was a pretty good
candidate,
but that was some years ago.
He has alluded to the fact of
cutting funds for police and so
im very skeptical of Biden and
Harris.
I will support president Trump
again
will. Why do you think he has
changed?
The party itself has moved to
the left
and he has kind of moved along
with them
will have. You said something
similar about your own choice,
your own move to become a
Republican
yeah.
I didnt leave the Democratic
Party
it left me:
will there you have it PETE
Pete very interesting?
Will I dont know what kind of
indicator that is for the way
Pennsylvania will vote come this
election, but I do think its an
indicator of the effect these
protests have had on the
electorate.
They are increasingly more and
more unpopular.
You can see many in law
enforcement are making their way
away from the democratic Party.
Because of that
PETE did you get the sense?
Will he was a reflection of his
officers? Arrests, well, the others
in the department that the rank
and file felt like how could we
have our leadership as a
Democrat are w all this
nonsense going on when got this
job in problem of us and not
being supported?
Will I absolutely got this
sense that rank and file moved
most seemed to be supportive of
the republican Party?
Again? What does that say about
Pennsylvania?
What does that say about swing
voters?
What does that say about people
who might switch from one party
to the other
PETE about union voters?
Traditionally so strong nut camp
of Democrats? To hear that other
officer say he is very prounion?
Is he a Republican?
The president has made a play
for those workers and bring the.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-26.