<p>Larry Krasner, the far-Left Philadelphia district attorney backed by George Soros, won the Democratic primary over a more moderate challenger on Tuesday night, likely securing a third term as he continues to push soft-on-crime policies.</p>
<p>Krasner was declared the winner over Pat Dugan, a U.S. Army veteran and former head administrative judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-district-attorney-election-31df19bdb5fb6e10ad65e5702468e2b9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. With 83% of the vote counted as of Wednesday morning, Krasner was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/20/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-district-attorney-philadelphia-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ahead</a> of Dugan by nearly 30 percentage points. Krasner&#8217;s primary victory all but ensures his third four-year term, as no Republican candidate is running in the general election in November in the deep blue city.</p>
<p>During the primary race, Dugan nearly doubled Krasner&#8217;s donations, raking in $900,700 to Krasner&#8217;s $499,900 between November 2024 and May 2025, Philadelphia&#8217;s public radio station WHYY <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-district-attorney-race-campaign-finance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. More than half of the money Krasner received for the primary came from people living outside of the city, including from wealthy leftists like Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, and Patricia Quillin, the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings. Dugan, meanwhile, received most of his money from donors within Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Krasner focused his re-election messaging on national politics and President Donald Trump. In March, Krasner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-das-comments-about-punching-trump-could-haunt-him-in-re-election-fight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Trump and his supporters &#8220;fascists&#8221; and &#8220;bullies who need to be punched in the face as hard as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Trump likes crime. Fascists like crime. Right-wing Republican MAGA people like crime and they like it because it gins up a crisis that doesn’t have to be, which allows them to scapegoat different groups of marginalized people so they can eliminate our rights. This is a very old playbook,” he added.</p>
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<p>Dugan portrayed himself as a moderate compared to Krasner, slamming the district attorney&#8217;s policies. Some of Krasner&#8217;s lenient policies include ending cash bail for some offenses, cutting back on parole supervision, and pushing for reduced sentences for certain crimes. Krasner oversaw a massive spike in homicides after taking office in 2018. Homicides in the city jumped from 351 in 2018 to 562 in 2021, according to Fox News. Philadelphia <a href="https://pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/philadelphia-violent-crime-hits-20-year-low-as-trump-says-city-is-suffering/#:~:text=The%20nonprofit%20Pew%20Charitable%20Trusts,%2C%20while%20murder%20fell%2026.4%25." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a drop in violent crime to a 20-year low in 2024.</p>
<p>The district attorney was impeached by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2022, but a Commonwealth Court judge ruled that the articles of impeachment didn&#8217;t meet the state constitution&#8217;s requirement.</p>
<p>The Philadelphia GOP <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/patrick-dugan-gop-write-in-votes-pennsylvania-primary-election-2025-20250520.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> voters to write in Dugan&#8217;s name on the Republican line in the primary election. If he receives 1,000 write-in votes, he could run as a Republican in the November general election. Dugan&#8217;s campaign manager, however, said he would decline the GOP nomination.</p>

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