Mike Schmidt, the hard-left Portland DA, won with 77% of the vote in 2020.
Last night, he lost by double digits — despite receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from Soros groups.
His opponent was a lifelong Republican.
Yes: A lifelong Republican won in Portland. (2/14)
Schmidt is the latest scalp in a tough-on-crime revolution that's happening across the country.
In the wake of BLM, far-left prosecutors swept into office in many major cities — and immediately began implementing soft-on-crime policies.
The results were devastating. (3/14)
But soon after those policies took effect, a backlash began.
The first sign came in July 2021: The election of Eric Adams as New York mayor.
Whatever you think of Adams today, his win was a rebuke of the Left. He made cracking down on crime the center of his message. (4/14)
The next flash point came just a few months later, in November 2021: A law-and-order Republican handily defeated a far-left Democrat for the position of Seattle City Attorney.
(The far-left candidate was especially insane — she wanted to literally abolish the police). (5/14)
Then, in June 2022, a political earthquake hit San Francisco: The city's infamously radical district attorney, Chesa Boudin — the son of violent communist revolutionaries who murdered multiple police officers in the 1980s — was recalled by San Franciscan voters. (6/14)
A month later, in July 2022, Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby — another Soros-backed left-wing prosecutor — lost in the Democratic primary to a more traditionally tough-on-crime opponent.
Mosby had been charged with perjury—which she claimed was a result of racism. (7/14)
Then, in April 2023, Kim Foxx — also far-left and funded by Soros — announced that she wouldn't seek re-election to her position as Chicago's top prosecutor.
Foxx's policies were so radical that she had become a political liability for Chicago's Democratic Party machine. (8/14)
A month later, in May 2023, yet another left-wing Soros prosecutor abruptly resigned in disgrace: Kim Gardner, the Circuit Attorney for St. Louis, Missouri.
Gardner's resignation came after a long string of widely-criticized radical policy failures. (See below). (9/14)
Then another, that very same month: Rachael Rollins, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Rollins was appointed to her position by Biden. She resigned in the face of a looming corruption investigation.
She was the fifth Soros prosecutor to get the boot. (10/14)
But the backlash isn't over yet.
At least two more major Soros prosecutors are facing serious challenges this November.
The first, Oakland DA Pamela Price, is currently fighting for her political life against a recall campaign. And the momentum isn't on her side. (11/14)
And George Gascon, the notoriously radical DA for Los Angeles County, is facing a challenge from a tough-on-crime Republican (who is running as an independent) in the upcoming election.
The challenger, Nathan Hochman, leads Gascon in the polls by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. (12/14)
It remains to be seen how these two races will end. These are deep-blue cities, after all — Gascon has survived two recall elections already.
But the fact that there even were two recall elections in Gascon's four years in office shows just how deep this backlash goes. (13/14)
It's one thing for conservative parts of the country to be against soft-on-crime radicalism. That's normal.
But this revolt is taking place in the deepest-blue cities in America.
What happened in Portland last night is proof: On this issue, the Left is losing — badly. (14/14)
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