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In the last five years, as social movements have shifted the Democrats’ message on criminal justice and public safety leftward, the figure whose career seems to speak the most to that conversation has refused to lead it.
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Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
For most of the nation, California is an afterthought in the race for the Republican presidential nomination due to its overwhelmingly leftward leanings, but the state is critical to Trump’s effort to return to the White House.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Unsurprisingly, then, that capacity for decisive impact has not gone unnoticed by Democrats hoping to lock in a key demographic, nor by Republicans worried by the bloc's broadly leftward lean.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 23 Apr. 2023
Ackman doubled down in a Dec. 3 post on X, adding that the university’s hiring practices has promoted a leftward bias and urged Gay to commission a third-party firm to do an anonymous survey of the Harvard faculty.
—Janet Lorin, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
On the other side of the Bronx River, Mr. Torres, 35, who is gay and Afro-Latino, has staked out a strikingly different project to the right of many of his peers, offering himself as a counterweight to his party’s leftward lurch.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
But with the Academy’s diversity rules considered so easy to meet, combined with Hollywood’s leftward lean, the inclusion standards for best-picture consideration appear to be safe for now.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
California, which in the 1990s adopted several anti-immigration measures, is now the most pro-immigration state in the country because of its growing Latino population, grassroots organizing, and the general leftward shift among California Democrats.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Even after years of leftward drift, the state’s electorate reaffirmed that ban by a large margin in 2020.
—Tim Rosenberger, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
For most of the nation, California is an afterthought in the race for the Republican presidential nomination due to its overwhelmingly leftward leanings, but the state is critical to Trump’s effort to return to the White House.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Unsurprisingly, then, that capacity for decisive impact has not gone unnoticed by Democrats hoping to lock in a key demographic, nor by Republicans worried by the bloc's broadly leftward lean.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 23 Apr. 2023
Ackman doubled down in a Dec. 3 post on X, adding that the university’s hiring practices has promoted a leftward bias and urged Gay to commission a third-party firm to do an anonymous survey of the Harvard faculty.
—Janet Lorin, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
On the other side of the Bronx River, Mr. Torres, 35, who is gay and Afro-Latino, has staked out a strikingly different project to the right of many of his peers, offering himself as a counterweight to his party’s leftward lurch.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
But with the Academy’s diversity rules considered so easy to meet, combined with Hollywood’s leftward lean, the inclusion standards for best-picture consideration appear to be safe for now.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
California, which in the 1990s adopted several anti-immigration measures, is now the most pro-immigration state in the country because of its growing Latino population, grassroots organizing, and the general leftward shift among California Democrats.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Even after years of leftward drift, the state’s electorate reaffirmed that ban by a large margin in 2020.
—Tim Rosenberger, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Leftward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leftward. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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leftward
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left·ward
ˈlef-twərd 
: toward or on the left
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