Jay Webber is doubling down on his assertion BettyLou DeCroce is an anti-cop radical.

But now DeCroce has some cops on her side. A recent DeCroce campaign piece says “BettyLou backs the blue” and urges voters to ignore the “lies being spread by her desperate opponents.”

This is the work of the State Troopers Fraternal Association.

Whether a candidate backs police is an odd issue in a Republican primary, but it’s raging in LD-26, which is centered in Morris County and includes small parts of Essex and Passaic counties.

Both Webber and DeCroce are Assembly incumbents, but only Webber has been endorsed by the Morris County Republican Committee.

Webber’s partner is Christian Barranco, who the committee also endorsed. Also in the race is Tom Mastrangelo, a county commissioner.

The police issue stems from DeCroce’s vote last year in support of making July 13 Black Lives Matter day in New Jersey. The bill speaks of urging police and others to work together in the name of solidarity and also acknowledges past injustices. In short, this was one of those symbolic votes public bodies commonly take.

And it really wasn’t controversial. No Assembly member voted “no,” although a number of them, Webber included, abstained. This begs an obvious question. If the bill was so heinous, why didn’t anyone push the “no” button?

But now that we’re in a primary fight, Webber is using the vote to link DeCroce to the “defund the police movement.”

A campaign piece last week accused DeCroce of supporting BLM’s radical agenda. And he reiterated that point this week.

The latest piece suggests DeCroce is an anti-Trump, anti-ICE, anti-cop radical. In case you miss the point, there’s a photo of someone holding a  “Defund the Police” sign. No, it’s not DeCroce.

DeCroce’s rebuttal piece says simply that she’s backed by the State Troopers association.

As an overview, it’s hard to see where Webber, who hasn’t been interested in chatting about the race, is going with all this.

You would think that voters who care about the state Assembly, which is not a high profile position, would know something about the candidates.

Are these voters really going to believe that DeCroce, who has been active in Republican politics for about 40 years, is a closet member of the Black Liberation Army?

That seems doubtful, but Webber apparently sees things differently.