{"id":1910502,"date":"2023-04-06T02:57:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-cop-leftist-wins-chicago-mayoral-race\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T02:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:59:53","slug":"anti-cop-leftist-wins-chicago-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-cop-leftist-wins-chicago-mayoral-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Cop Leftist Wins Chicago Mayoral Race"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fanti-cop-leftist-wins-chicago-mayoral-race%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=1910502&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>\n<h2 itemprop=\"headline\">Brandon Johnson Wins Runoff Election Against Paul Vallas<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<p>\n        In a fiercely contested 2023 runoff election in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a>, Brandon Johnson emerged victorious over Paul Vallas, succeeding incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lori-lightfoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lori Lightfoot<\/a>. This victory ends the squabble between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> in the city.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Johnson will be Chicago&#8217;s fourth black mayor after Harold Washington, who held the position from 1983 to 1987, Eugene Sawyer, who served from 1987 to 1989, and Lightfoot, who became the first black female mayor in 2019.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        With 99% of precincts reporting, Johnson secured 51.42% of the votes, while Vallas received 48.58%. A record of over 555,000 total votes were counted at the end of election day.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n                <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"443\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"443\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"372\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"372\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"612\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><source width=\"1060\" height=\"612\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/picture><figcaption itemprop=\"caption\">\n                    Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are the two mayoral candidates facing off in the runoff election on April 4.<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><p>\n                    (AP)\n                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>\n        Johnson&#8217;s electoral campaign focused more on progressive values than Vallas&#8217;s. Johnson contended for comprehensive reform at all levels, aiming to enhance communities by improving mental health services, affordable housing, and education. He also stressed the need to promote detectives to combat the city&#8217;s rising crime rates.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Various national lawmakers endorsed Johnson, including Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bernie-sanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), as well as the Chicago Teachers Union, which donated millions to his campaign. Johnson defied several polls taken before the election, which showed Vallas leading him by a slight margin.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Johnson&#8217;s win will likely steer the Democratic-controlled city towards a more progressive trajectory compared to previous years. If Vallas had won, stricter policing methods and a more fiscally responsible approach to education in the city would have been adopted.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Johnson will have to work diligently to collaborate with police officers and police unions, which overwhelmingly backed Vallas in the mayoral race and openly criticized Johnson&#8217;s approach to the criminal justice system.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Early voting was high for the runoff election, with Chicago voters casting 292,591 ballots before election day, including early voting and mail-in ballots.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayoral race: Brandon Johnson defeats Paul Vallas in runoff election Brandon Johnson defeated Paul Vallas in the highly contentious 2023 Chicago mayoral runoff election, taking the mantle from incumbent Lori Lightfoot and bringing an end to the battle between Democrats in the city. Johnson will become the fourth black mayor of Chicago, following Harold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1910503,"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":[547],"tags":[4922,4387,4717,19080,5069,5745],"class_list":["post-1910502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-anti-cop","tag-chicago","tag-leftist","tag-mayoral","tag-race","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\/1910502","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=1910502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}