If this week's district attorney election is anything to go by, Americans are turning the page on the woke left's approach to crime.
A majority of the 25 George Soros-affiliated district attorneys who voted this week lost, signaling a backlash against progressive policies that critics say are responsible for a recent spike in crime across the country.
Many of the defeated Soros candidates ran in deep-blue jurisdictions, and Vice President Harris suffered significant losses even though she won comfortable majorities in those same areas. This shows that most Democrats are also happy with the progressive left's soft criminal experiments. According to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a pro-police nonprofit that tracked 25 races.
out of 25 Soros related Of the district attorneys who participated in the vote, 12 were rejected or recalled.
Hungarian-born American investor and philanthropist George Soros and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times, Getty Images, left, and Fabrice Cofferini/AFP, right.)
'Failed experiment': Experts reveal why Soros-backed policies hurt in deep blue states
Soros, a left-wing Hungarian-born billionaire, runs a dark money network of nonprofits, including his Open Society Foundations, that fund various candidates around the world who support his progressive policies. are. Mr. Soros has donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations since 1984, according to his website.
The most high-profile loss this week was at Los Angeles City. Mr. Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascón came out on top on crime, losing 24% to his tough-on-crime opponent, former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman. Election cycle issues.
By contrast, Harris won Los Angeles County by a landslide 30 points.
Elsewhere in the liberal stronghold state, hard-on-crime San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins easily defeated Prosecutor Ryan Cojuste, a handpicked candidate for former District Attorney Chesa Boudin's 2022 recall. It broke.
Jenkins claimed in January that the city had experienced a “deep shift to the right” in recent years. Gascón had similar feelings after this week's loss.
In another defeat for Soros-backed Golden State prosecutors, District Attorney Pamela Price, less than two years into office, faces backlash over her alleged soft approach to crime. He was recalled in Alameda County, home to the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. Vice President Harris won the county 75% to 25%.
“Across the battleground states and in Vice President Harris' home state of California, a significant percentage of Democrats voted to oust progressive prosecutors,” Sean Kennedy, policy director at the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told Fox News Digital. told.
Nathan Hockman fired Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon on Tuesday. Gascón survived two recall attempts, but his progressive criminal justice policies drew criticism. (AP)
“The election results show that a soft approach to crime is not only a failed policy experiment, but also a political loser, even in deep blue areas.
California's Proposition 36, which called for reinstating tougher penalties for drugs and theft, easily passed with 70.4% of voters in favor. Every county in the state voted in favor of Proposition 36.
The defeat comes after retail chains and mom-and-pop stores have been hit hard by theft, snatch robbery and organized retail crime rings, while cities like San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles have been ravaged by rising property crime. It was done. and retail theft.
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Kennedy said voter backlash against crime mitigation policies was particularly acute in battleground states.
In Georgia, Deborah Gonzalez, district attorney for Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties, abstained with 20% voting against her. She represented the county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant, but Riley had been arrested before the brutal crime and later released.
Mr. Gonzalez beat Ms. Harris by 16 percentage points, and received 56.5% of the vote in those counties to Mr. Trump's 43.5%.
In Georgia, Deborah Gonzalez, district attorney for Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties, abstained with 20% voting against her. She represented the county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant, but Riley had been arrested before the brutal crime and later released. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Meanwhile, traditional prosecutors in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Macomb County, Michigan, outpaced President Trump's margin of victory and defeated Soros-backed challengers, according to Kennedy.
“In the most important district attorney races, traditionally-minded prosecutors won larger votes than Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. One in eight Harris voters favored the tough-on-crime candidate. It turns out that public safety is not partisan.'' It's a common sense issue. ”
But there were also victories for Soros-linked candidates, with Savannah's progressive prosecutor Sharena Cook-Jones retaining her 7% seat.
In Florida, Soros-backed Monique Worrell defeated Andrew Bain by just over 5 percentage points to regain the Orange-Osceola state attorney's seat. She was ousted last year by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on charges of criminal “neglect of duty.”
In Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, District Attorney Pamela Price was recalled. (Lee Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle)
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But DeSantis' other opponent, Andrew Warren, lost to Republican Susie Lopez in Hillsborough County. DeSantis suspended Warren in August 2022 for refusing to enforce the state's abortion ban.
Kennedy said that of the approximately 75 Soros-linked prosecutors nationwide his organization has identified since 2022, more than 30 have resigned and 20 have been replaced by traditional district attorneys. .
Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller, Jamie Joseph, Luis Casiano and Michael Lewis contributed to this report.
