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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is leading a charge to get Republicans more involved in district attorney races to stop the spread of liberal criminal justice reform at the local level.
Conservatives are playing catch-up on what has until recently been an under-the-radar campaign to elect liberal prosecutors, an effort that led to progressive district attorneys everywhere from San Francisco to Philadelphia.
“You have a lot of these left-wing special interest groups that will come in and they’ve learned a very smart tactic,” Miyares told the Washington Examiner in an interview this week. “They’ve realized, ‘I don’t have to win a governor’s mansion. I don’t have to change control of my state Senate or my state assembly. I’ve just got to go into certain areas, I’ve got to elect very left-wing social justice warriors as these prosecutors.’”
