(Reuters)—Chicago’s incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid on Tuesday, with vote totals showing that two of her rivals will face each other in an April runoff ballot.
Paul Vallas, the former public schools chief in Chicago and Philadelphia who ran unsuccessfully for Chicago mayor in 2019, secured the top spot, taking 34.9% of the vote with 91% of precincts reporting, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, secured the other spot in the runoff race, taking 20.2% of votes. Lightfoot had 16.4% of vote totals, and there were not enough votes outstanding for her to make up the ground between her and Johnson.
Polls showed public safety is by far the top concern among residents of the third-largest U.S. city.
The campaign has tested Democratic messaging on policing in the U.S., three years after widespread protests following the police murder of George Floyd and months after Republicans sought to bludgeon Democrats over the issue in the 2022 midterm elections.
The Chicago race is technically non-partisan, but every candidate identifies as a Democrat in the heavily left-leaning city.
She is a RACIST & should be in PRISON !!!! So No Wonder WHY
She is another Perfect example > Don’t vote by Race or Gender / Obama is another one
Born and raised in the Chicago metro area, this is the best news I’ve hear coming out of Chicago in years. Chicago was once a beautiful city of hard working, blue collar, working families who took enormous pride in their homes and city. Any that was when Richard J. Daily (a Democrat) was mayor. You know, the mayor who ordered the Chicago Police Department to crack the heads of the Hippies who demonstrated in the street at the 1968 Democratic National Convention? Then, Progressives took control like Lightfoot and Chicago sank into the sewer. The frightening thing, Brandon Johnson is as much a Progressive as is Lightfoot.
BYE BYE Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice! Hysterical.
Glad she is out now need to oust mayor Los Angeles., DC Mayor, Seattle mayor, NY mayor all the wokes who do nothing but leave crime behind in their cities. Rid this country of crime and drugs, and immigrants without real back ground checks and put more walls back up on the Southern border. And now we need walls up on our Northern border states. This will lessen the drugs and number 1 and 2 crime.