{"id":1568745,"date":"2022-07-24T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568745"},"modified":"2022-07-24T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:49:27","slug":"baltimore-progressive-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-defeated-in-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-progressive-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-defeated-in-reelection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Progressive Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Defeated in Reelection Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaltimore-progressive-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-defeated-in-reelection-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1568745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Marilyn Mosby, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-baltimore\">Baltimore<\/a>\u2019s high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-progressive-prosecutor\">progressive prosecutor<\/a> who was indicted on federal charges, has lost her second reelection bid in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.maryland.gov\/elections\/2022\/primary_results\/gen_results_2022_by_county_3.html\">unofficial election results<\/a> by the Maryland State Board of Elections, Ivan Bates led by 26,660 votes or 39.8 percent, Thiru Vignarajah got 30.4 percent, and Mosby came in third, at 29.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Bates, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, criticized Mosby on the campaign trail over what he called the mismanagement and incompetence of her office. He often said that he ran to make Baltimore safer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am humble, grateful, and excited that Baltimore decided it was time for a change, and the voters have placed their trust and belief in me,\u201d Bates wrote to his supporters in an email announcing his victory on July 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe job of helping build a safer Baltimore is a tremendous challenge. I am ready to lead\u2014and to work with collaborators of all stripes to help make that a reality,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mosby\u2019s two terms, Baltimore\u2019s murders rose steadily, averaging 333 every year between 2015 and 2021. This year\u2019s murders are on track to surpass that of 2021, according to Baltimore Police Department data.<\/p>\n<p>During Mosby\u2019s predecessor Gregg Bernstein\u2019s final term, the city had a yearly average of 215 murders.<\/p>\n<p>To fight crime, Bates proposes a five-point prosecution plan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batesforbaltimore.com\/_files\/ugd\/fd0924_ddf2d274c66c4eb49d0fa71ea720ff50.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), including putting more resources into prosecuting illegal gun possessors, users, and traffickers, according to his campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>He ran against Mosby in the 2018 primary and lost.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-01-13T231603Z_1_LYNXMPEI0C16G_RTROPTP_4_CRIME-BALTIMORE-PROSECUTOR-1200x1027-1.jpg\"><\/a> City State\u2019s Attorney Marilyn Mosby (C) departs the courthouse in Baltimore on June 23, 2016. (Bryan Woolston\/Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>Mosby wrote in a social media post to her supporters on July 23: \u201cI am grateful to my family and my colleagues in the State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s office for their commitment to our city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore\u2019s high-profile progressive prosecutor who was indicted on federal charges, has lost her second reelection bid in the Democratic primary. According to the unofficial election results by the Maryland State Board of Elections, Ivan Bates led by 26,660 votes or 39.8 percent, Thiru Vignarajah got 30.4 percent, and Mosby came in third, at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}