As Trump intervenes in DC's crime crisis, another violent city's DA gets a challenger from inside the tent
Philly judge switches from Democrat to Republican to challenge Soros-backed DA in November election
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published August 12, 2025 11:00am EDT
A former municipal judge who lost to Philadelphia’s Soros-linked city prosecutor in the May Democratic primary announced over the weekend he would be registering for the Republican Party line in November’s election, as President Donald Trump brings a new focus on urban crime.
Philadelphia Judge Patrick Dugan, of the city’s Far Northeast, earned enough write-in votes in May’s contest – where no Republican was on that party’s primary ballot – to be able to run on the party line in November.
However, it wasn’t until the weekend that Dugan formally announced he would take the GOP mantle in hopes of ousting Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Trump, meanwhile, announced on Monday he is usurping control of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., for the statutory 48 hours allowed under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 due to violent crime he declared is on par with several capitals in Central America.
Dugan said in a statement that he expects Krasner to try to tie him to Trump and call him an "extremist," but only "because he knows his record is one of failure, and he cannot defend the rampant crime his policies have caused."
"I know that Philadelphians are smart enough to believe their eyes, and what they see is more crime, more drugs, more victims abandoned, more shootings, and more criminals let loose on the streets," Dugan said in a statement.
The former jurist also reportedly said that although he will be on the Republican line, he identifies as an
"Independent-Democrat."more
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