Californians along with out-of-state donor George Soros have contributed heavily to Democrat Beto O'Rourke’s gubernatorial campaign to unseat Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Soros, a Hungarian-born businessman who has championed Democrats and their causes for decades, is known for backing progressive candidates. Many of the candidates he helped elect are considered far-left, such as George Gascon, who won the Los Angeles District Attorney race in 2020 but is facing a second recall effort for his soft-on-crime stance.
