{"id":1932659,"date":"2023-05-17T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932659"},"modified":"2023-05-17T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:01:20","slug":"philly-dem-mayoral-primary-winner-hospitalized-skips-victory-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-dem-mayoral-primary-winner-hospitalized-skips-victory-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Dem Mayoral Primary Winner Hospitalized, Skips Victory Party."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fphilly-dem-mayoral-primary-winner-hospitalized-skips-victory-party%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=1932659&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--><h2>Cherelle Parker Wins Democratic Nomination for Philadelphia Mayor<\/h2>\n<p>Cherelle Parker, a 50-year-old politician, won the Democratic nomination for Philadelphia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-dem-mayoral-primary-winner-hospitalized-skips-victory-party\/\" title=\"Philly Dem Mayoral Primary Winner Hospitalized, Skips Victory Party.\">upcoming mayoral election<\/a> with 33% of the vote. Her victory celebration was missed due to an emergency that caused her to be hospitalized. <\/p>\n<h3>The Emergency<\/h3>\n<p>Parker had to go to the hospital due to a &#8220;dental emergency&#8221; that required immediate medical attention. She was hospitalized at the University of Pennsylvania, according to campaign spokesperson Aren Platt. <\/p>\n<p>In February, Parker had reportedly been told that she needed to have a tooth removed but delayed the procedure until last Friday. &#8220;It needed to come out, so we made a decision to sort of just push it off because I was trying to get through the primary, and then it came up,&#8221; she told the Inquirer. <\/p>\n<h3>The Democratic Nomination<\/h3>\n<p>Pollsters predict Parker will win the November election, as Philadelphia is heavily Democratic. A Republican mayor hasn&#8217;t been elected there since the 1940s, and the current mayor, Jim Kenney, won with 80% of the vote in his last election. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so incredibly honored to have earned the Democratic nomination tonight. It&#8217;s been a long road, and to see the tireless work of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\" title=\"Report:\u00a0Anti-Israel Activist Heading to Biden State Dept\">campaign team<\/a>, supporters, and family pay off is humbling. I&#8217;m looking forward to November and bringing our city together as its 100th mayor,&#8221; Parker said on Twitter. <\/p>\n<h3>The Core Issue<\/h3>\n<p>Elevated crime levels were a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/papa-john-says-pr-company-planted-racism-allegations-after-he-would-not-pay-6m\/\" title=\"\u2018Papa John\u2019 Says PR Company Planted Racism Allegations After He Would Not Pay M\">core issue<\/a> in the primary. Philadelphia saw 516 homicides last year, just below the 2021 total of 562, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-75-percent-of-voters-disapprove-of-kamala-harriss-handling-of-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Poll: 75 Percent of Voters Disapprove of Kamala Harris\u2019s Handling of Border Crisis\">decades-long high<\/a> in the City of Brotherly Love, according to data from the Philadelphia Police Department. Parker took a more moderate approach to law and order, promising to increase the number of police officers to &#8220;stop the sense of lawlessness that is plaguing our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Opponent<\/h3>\n<p>Helen Gym, a leftist candidate, was heavily favored by the far Left in the city and had the endorsements of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Rebecca Rhynhart, a former city comptroller, earned 22% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Cherelle Parker&#8217;s victory in the Democratic nomination for Philadelphia&#8217;s mayoral election is a historic moment for the city. With her moderate approach to law and order, she promises to bring the city together and tackle the core issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/volunteer-campaigning-for-far-left-philly-mayoral-candidate-fatally-shoots-another-volunteer-police\/\" title=\"Far-left Philly mayoral candidate's volunteer fatally shoots another volunteer during campaigning, say police.\">elevated crime levels<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherelle Parker, the Democratic nominee for Philadelphia&#8217;s mayoral election, missed her victory celebration due to a hospitalization. Parker, 50, won the nomination with 33% of the vote, followed by Rebecca Rhynhart with 22% and Helen Gym with 21%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1932662,"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":[541],"tags":[6244,4190,19080,4787,10598,4909,11640,7621,5554],"class_list":["post-1932659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-dem","tag-hospitalized","tag-mayoral","tag-party","tag-philly","tag-primary","tag-skips","tag-victory","tag-winner"],"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\/1932659","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}