This year’s race of the District Prosecutor in Philadelphia ended in May, when the two -time sedge of Larry Krasner Wallope was a former judge of the City Court Patrick Dugan in the basic democratic democratic.
Did it do it?
The Republican City Committee is currently conducting Philadelphians about whether they consider voting for Dugan in November universal elections, if he appears again in voting – this time as a republican.
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Dugan won the nomination for GOP in May without a campaign for this, thanks to the writing campaign organized by Philly Republicans.
The digital survey, which was written to the reporter, partly asks: “If the election to the District Prosecutor in Philadelphia took place today, for whom you would vote: Larry Krasner, Democrat; or Pat Dugan, Democrat running a republican ticket?”
No Republican submitted a request for a run in the base, and after everything began to look bad in Dugan in a democratic competition, Philly Gop managed to choose a moderate former Soyer as a republican nominated. Republicans needed at least 1,000 main voters to write on behalf of Dugan. He finally received over 6,000 GOP votes.
If Dugan accepted the nomination, he would be able to do another chance to leave Krasner, a prosecutor known in the country.
“I think he and his family are still looking at all their options,” said Vince Fenerty, who is chaired by the Committee of the Republican City on Thursday. “We hope that the survey will tell us all Larry Krasner Luki and we still hope that Judge Dugan will remain a republican candidate for the District Prosecutor.”
Dugan is until August 11 to pay a fee for reporting for voting or withdraw from the race. His campaign manager, Dan Kalai, said before the basis that Dugan would not accept the GOP nomination if he did not contact the dwarf in May.
But Dugan has not commented on this issue since he won the republican nomination. He did not answer the request for comment on Thursday.
Krasner said on Thursday that the former judge is not dishonest in terms of whether he could act as a Republican throughout the entire campaign. And according to Krasner, Dugan effectively runs an election campaign because he did not remove himself from consideration.
“This is not a question whether it works,” said Krasner. “He launches. He is a candidate. He had every opportunity to take off his name.”
Krasner speculated that Dugan may hope to apply the spending on the campaign by the billionaire of technology Elon Musk, former ally of President Donald Trump, who was addressed to progressive prosecutors or other GOP megadonors.
“We all know that there is musk money,” said Krasner.
If Dugan had a second round against Krasner, it would be a hill battle. He lost 29 percentage points basic, and Philly is for the most part democratic.
But this would not be unprecedented. In fact, the strategy is becoming more and more common when Democrats with moderate and supported by the establishment are trying to stop the profits of more progressive candidates who have won surprising victories in the basic foundations.
In 2021, the mayor of Buffalo Byron Brown lost a democratic basis in India Walton, who was supported by America’s democratic socialists, but gained re -election through a campaign of writing universal elections.
In 2023, the District Prosecutor of Allegheny Steppla was re -elected after losing the basic democratic with a more progressive contender – accidentally appointed Matthew Dugan (without relationships) – and launched in universal elections as a Republican.
In this year’s mayor’s race in New York, former governor Andrew Cuomo acts in universal elections as an external candidate after losing the basic democratic with Zohran Mamdani. (Mayor Eric Adams, who did not act in the basic, also works in universal elections).
Fenerty said that Philly Gop was based on his strategy at the Allegheny Fountain Race.
“If [Dugan] We were supposed to go forward, we believe that he will have a good shot in becoming a district prosecutor – said Fenerty. “I have great respect for Judge Dugan. He undoubtedly had a star career and I believe that he would be a very forthright district prosecutor for all of Philadelphia.”
Ellie Rushing, a staff writer, contributed to this article.
