If this week’s district attorney elections are anything to go by, Americans are turning the page on the woke left’s approach to crime.

majority of 25 George Soros linked The defeat of district attorneys in this week’s vote signaled a backlash against progressive policies that critics say are responsible for increases in crime across the country in recent years.

Most of the losing Soros candidates ran for office in deep blue jurisdictions and suffered heavy losses, even though Vice President Harris won comfortable majorities in the same districts; This suggests that a majority of Democrats are also giving up on the progressive Left’s soft-on-crime experiment. That’s according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit, pro-police organization that tracks 25 races.

out of 25 people Soros linked In a vote by district attorneys, 12 were either defeated or recalled.

Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, left, and Fabrice Cofferini / AFP, right.)

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Soros, the Hungarian-born left-wing billionaire, runs a dark money network of nonprofit organizations around the world, including the Open Society Foundations, that fund a variety of candidates aligned with his progressive agenda. According to his website, Soros has donated over $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations since 1984.

This week’s most notable loss occurred in the city of Los Angeles. District Attorney George GascónHe was defeated by 24 percentage points by his tough-on-crime opponent, Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor backed by Soros, and crime has become the top issue of the election cycle.

In contrast, Harris swept Los Angeles District by 30 points.

Elsewhere in the liberal stronghold state, tough-on-crime San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins easily defeated prosecutor Ryan Khojasteh, the handpicked candidate of former district attorney Chesa Boudin, who is being recalled in 2022.

Jenkins of the city in January There is a “hard turn to the right” In recent years. These sentiments were echoed by Gascón following his loss this week.

Another loss for Soros-backed prosecutors in the Golden State was District Attorney Pamela Price. recalled Less than two years after he took office in Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, amid backlash over his alleged softness on crime. Vice President Harris clinched the district 75-25%.

“In battleground states and in Vice President Harris’ home state of California, a significant portion of Democrats voted to remove progressive prosecutors,” Sean Kennedy, policy director for the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told Fox News Digital.

Nathan Hochman fired Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon on Tuesday. Gascon has survived two recall attempts and has faced criticism for his progressive criminal justice policies. (AP)

“The election results show that soft on crime is not only a failed policy experiment but also a political loser even in deep blue areas.

California’s Proposition 36The law, which aims to introduce tough penalties for drugs and theft, was easily approved by 70.4% of voters. Every county in the state voted in favor of Proposition 36.

The defeats come after retail chains and mom-and-pop shops were hit hard by break-ins, smash-and-snatch robberies and organized retail crime gangs, while cities like San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles were devastated by increases in property crime. and retail theft.

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Kennedy said voter backlash against soft-on-crime policies was especially fierce in battleground states.

In Georgia, Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez was rejected by 20%. He represented the same county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant, who was arrested before the brutal crime and later released.

Gonzalez fell 16% behind Harris, who carried those counties with 56.5% to Trump’s 43.5%.

In Georgia, Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez was rejected by 20%. He represented the same county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant, who was arrested before the brutal crime and later released. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Meanwhile, traditional prosecutors in Arizona’s Maricopa County and Michigan’s Macomb County surpassed Trump’s margin of victory and defeated Soros-backed challengers, according to Kennedy.

“In the top district attorney races, traditionally minded prosecutors received more votes than Donald Trump or Kamala Harris because one in eight Harris voters supported the tough-on-crime candidate. It turns out that public safety is a nonpartisan issue, it’s a common sense issue.”

But Soros-affiliated candidates triumphed, and Shalena Cook Jones, a progressive prosecutor in Savannah, retained her seat by 7%.

In Florida, Soros-backed Monique Worrell won back the position of Orange-Osceola state attorney, beating Andrew Bain by just over 5 percentage points. HE He was dismissed last year by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for “dereliction of duty” regarding the crime.

District Attorney Pamela Price has been recalled from Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle)

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But another of DeSantis’ foes, Andrew Warren, lost to Republican Suzy Lopez in Hillsborough County. DeSantis suspended Warren for her refusal in August 2022. enforce the state’s abortion ban.

Kennedy says that of the roughly 75 Soros-linked prosecutors his organization has identified nationwide since 2022, more than 30 have left office and 20 have been replaced by traditional district attorneys.

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller, Jamie Joseph, Louis Casiano and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report