{"id":1900835,"date":"2023-03-19T04:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T08:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayoral-race-endorsements-lining-up-for-vallas-and-johnson-ahead-of-runoff\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T04:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T08:15:48","slug":"chicago-mayoral-race-endorsements-lining-up-for-vallas-and-johnson-ahead-of-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayoral-race-endorsements-lining-up-for-vallas-and-johnson-ahead-of-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago mayoral race: Endorsements lining up for Vallas and Johnson ahead of runoff"},"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\">26<\/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-mayoral-race-endorsements-lining-up-for-vallas-and-johnson-ahead-of-runoff%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=1900835&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<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7 col-lg-8 col-xl-9 float-left body colgap-l-50\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78981818\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"The clock is ticking for Biden on COVID-19 origins declassification bill\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"President Joe Biden has less than a week to decide whether to sign or try to stop a bill declassifying COVID-19 origins intelligence that passed with veto-proof majorities. Both chambers of Congress unanimously passed legislation that would force the Biden administration to declassify all the information it has gathered on how the virus started as federal agencies are split between whether it began in nature or a lab leak.\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M23S\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-16 15:49:16\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/snapshot\/1263824_th_1678981756.jpg\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1263824.mp4\">\n              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n                var _bp=_bp||[];\n                _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_78981818\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1263824\"} });\n               <\/script><br \/>\n               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he Chicago mayoral runoff election is less than a month away, and both candidates are receiving endorsements from influential organizations and individuals from Chicago, and even the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate, who aims to address the city&#8217;s issues on crime and education that were exacerbated by the pandemic, is receiving endorsements from both progressive-leaning candidate Brandon Johnson and the more centrist candidate Paul Vallas.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2022, the Chicago mayoral race has generated over $22 million in funds, which was divided among the nine candidates during the general election. Now that no candidate was able to receive 50% of the vote, it is down to the two leading candidates, Vallas and Johnson, who will go head-to-head to determine Chicago&#8217;s direction for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the specific organizations, unions, and notable figures endorsing Johnson and Vallas respectively:<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\">\n                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"512\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"512\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><source width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n                      Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson participates in a forum with other Chicago mayoral candidates hosted by the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.<br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">\n                      (Erin Hooley\/AP)\n                    <\/div>\n<p>                  <\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two remaining Chicago mayoral candidates are racking up endorsements from organizations and influential figures across the city and the United States less than a month before the April runoff election. In the aftermath of a general election that ousted Lori Lightfoot, Chicago voters&#8217; are looking for a Democratic candidate who plans to change how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1900836,"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":[538],"tags":[4387,21510,4162,8990,19080,5069,9062,21476],"class_list":["post-1900835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-chicago","tag-endorsements","tag-johnson","tag-lining","tag-mayoral","tag-race","tag-runoff","tag-vallas"],"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\/1900835","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}