{"id":1864222,"date":"2023-02-28T23:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864222"},"modified":"2023-02-28T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:22:07","slug":"chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-loses-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-loses-reelection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-loses-reelection-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014Chicago&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Vallas was a former chief of Chicago public schools and Philadelphia. He ran unsuccessfully for Chicago mayor in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Johnson (a Cook County commissioner who is also an organizer for Chicago Teachers Union) won the other place in the runoff, receiving 20.2% of the votes. Lightfoot received 16.4% of the vote totals and she did not have enough votes to make up the difference between Johnson and her.<\/p>\n<p>Public safety was the number one concern of residents in the third-largest U.S. metro.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic campaign has tested Democratic messaging regarding policing and the U.S. three years after protests against George Floyd&#8217;s police killing. This comes months after Republicans attempted to bully Democrats over this issue in the midterm elections in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Although technically the race in Chicago is not partisan, every candidate identifies himself as a Democrat within this heavily left-leaning area.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot is running for a fourth four-year term as mayor of the city. She was the first Black woman to hold the office and the first openly gay person. Lightfoot was a surprise winner in 2019, campaigning as an outsider to end corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Her handling of a string of crises, including COVID-19, racial injustice protests, a protracted teacher&#8217;s strike, and an increase in crime, cost her popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago saw more than 800 murders in 2021, which was the highest number in a quarter century. Although the homicide rate fell 14% in 2022, it remained almost 40% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot stated that the 2022 decrease in murders and shootings is a result of her strategies such as hiring more officers, and focusing on illegal firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Pauls, 53-year-old healthcare worker, voted in downtown Chicago. Although she declined to identify the person she voted for, she seemed to be echoing many voters&#8217; sentiments when she stated that crime was a major concern. However, she didn&#8217;t think any candidate stood out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want someone who is going to manage the police in a way where we are not seeing African Americans mistreated,&#8221; She said.<\/p>\n<p>LOST SUPPORT<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot has clashed against the police and teachers&#8217; unions. The police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014Chicago&#8217;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.<br \/>\nThe post Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection Bid appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1864225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7564,4387,15699,16495,4318,4602,8313],"class_list":["post-1864222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bid","tag-chicago","tag-lightfoot","tag-lori","tag-loses","tag-mayor","tag-reelection"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}