{"id":303183,"date":"2025-10-14T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303183\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:32:09","slug":"patrick-dugan-gets-endorsement-from-andrew-yangs-forward-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303183\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dugan gets endorsement from Andrew Yang’s Forward Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Forward Party, an independent third party founded by entrepreneur-turned-presidential-candidate Andrew Yang, has endorsed Patrick Dugan<\/a> to be Philadelphia district attorney, providing a centrist backing for the Republican nominee.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dugan, a former Municipal Court judge who is challenging progressive Democratic incumbent District Attorney Larry Krasner<\/a>, announced the endorsement during a news conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, framing it as evidence that he is a \u201cunity candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis race is bigger than the left, the right, the red, the blue,\u201d said Dugan, a registered Democrat who lost to Krasner in the spring primary and is now running as the GOP nominee<\/a> following a successful write-in campaign organized by the city\u2019s Republican Party.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yang, the former Democratic candidate for both president and New York City mayor, did not appear at the news conference Tuesday. Robert Grabel, a representative from the Forward Party\u2019s Pennsylvania chapter, said the group is backing Dugan because \u201che\u2019s focused on doing the job, not on political labels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dugan said he\u2019s hopeful the endorsement will provide a jolt to the sleepy general election campaign to be Philadelphia\u2019s top prosecutor. With just three weeks until Election Day on Nov. 4, there\u2019s been little in the way of campaigning or advertising<\/a> by either candidate, and there have not been any public events featuring both of them.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: The Philly DA\u2019s race is seeing little money and even less noise with one month to go<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Any Republican campaign for citywide office is a long shot in Philadelphia, where registered Democrats<\/a> outnumber Republicans<\/a> more than 6-to-1. Krasner beat Dugan in the May Democratic primary<\/a> by 28 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Campaign finance papers filed last month show Dugan has struggled to fundraise, bringing in just $26,000 since announcing he would run as the Republican nominee to challenge Krasner again. In the spring, he far out-raised Krasner and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars<\/a>, much of it raised from labor unions.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: Philly\u2019s building trades unions have turned against Pat Dugan as he runs against DA Larry Krasner as a Republican<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Grabel said the Forward Party would support Dugan\u2019s bid \u201cin a number of ways,\u201d but did not detail potential financial contributions. The party often provides endorsed candidates with connections to donors and offers support services like calling voters and volunteers.<\/p>\n

Krasner declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Forward Party, an independent third party founded by entrepreneur-turned-presidential-candidate Andrew Yang, has endorsed Patrick Dugan to be…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,153963,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-303183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-patrick-dugan-philly-da-andrew-yang-endorsement","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115373720093141058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}