leftist

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With more than 98% of the votes counted in Sunday’s runoff election, she overtook her leftist opponent, Roberto Sánchez, with 50.002% support—a difference of just a few hundred votes out of nearly 20 million cast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Raman is more likely than Bass to pick up the voters who chose community organizer Rae Huang, a leftist who, like Raman, is a DSA member.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The June 7 runoff vote is expected to be as heated as the 2021 ballot, which also involved Fujimori against leftist Pedro Castillo, who won the vote but was removed from office in December 2022.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

He won elections as a congressman and then senator before becoming the top adviser to Colombia’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The Neylan board’s first case involved a former Los Alamos chemist named Robert Hurley, who had fallen under suspicion because his Latvian-born wife purportedly had leftist sympathies.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik