{"id":1910022,"date":"2023-04-05T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brandon-johnson-a-progressive-wins-chicago-mayoral-runoff-beating-moderate-paul-vallas\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T06:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:12:24","slug":"brandon-johnson-a-progressive-wins-chicago-mayoral-runoff-beating-moderate-paul-vallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brandon-johnson-a-progressive-wins-chicago-mayoral-runoff-beating-moderate-paul-vallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Johnson, a Progressive, Wins Chicago Mayoral Runoff, Beating Moderate Paul Vallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbrandon-johnson-a-progressive-wins-chicago-mayoral-runoff-beating-moderate-paul-vallas%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=1910022&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=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0405\/40f2cbc8-cd28-498e-a6da-9ce4f5d90ccf\/audio.mp3?length=2045133&#038;duration=170\"><\/div>\n<p>Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, has been elected as the 57th mayor of Chicago, according to The Associated Press. Paul Vallas, a moderate Democrat, lost to Johnson. Johnson will be succeeding Democrat Lori Lightfoot, who had faced criticism over issues such as public safety and COVID-19 management.<\/p>\n<p>Education and public safety were the two biggest issues in the election. Johnson ran on a pro-public school platform and was supported by the Chicago Teachers Union while Vallas endorsed a pro-school choice agenda. Despite underperforming test scores and graduation rates in Chicago, Johnson has promised to resist cutting city funding to schools.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was criticized by Vallas for his past support for the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement. Although Johnson called it a &#8220;real political goal&#8221; in 2020, he has distanced himself from the cause and clarified that it was not his personal stance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, Ill.\u2014Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, was elected the 57th mayor of Chicago on April 4, according to The Associated Press. Johnson, 47, defeated Paul Vallas, a 69-year-old moderate Democrat. He will succeed Democrat Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the Feb. 28 primary following years of coming under fire on issues ranging from COVID-19 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1910023,"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":[543],"tags":[16087,10259,4387,4162,19080,14775,5531,3629,9062,21476,5745],"class_list":["post-1910022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-beating","tag-brandon","tag-chicago","tag-johnson","tag-mayoral","tag-moderate","tag-paul","tag-progressive","tag-runoff","tag-vallas","tag-wins"],"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\/1910022","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}