BREAKING: Lori Lightfoot calls Brandon Johnson to concede place in Chicago mayoral runoff election
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will face off in the April mayoral runoff election after Lori Lightfoot called Johnson to concede Tuesday night.
When polls closed at 7 p.m. a total of 507,852 votes had been cast for 32.1% citywide. The largest group of voters by age were people 55 to 64 years old. "The city is clearly in crisis and people want a crisis manager who can come in and focus to get things done and avoid the rhetoric someone who can be inclusive," Vallas said."People all over the city of Chicago have been anticipating this day for a long time, turning the page on the old style of politics that have left families behind, and we are ready to usher in a better, stronger, safer Chicago," Johnson said.
"The most important thing to do is for people to vote, and then, if they vote in return, we're going to continue the work that we've been doing. I'm all over the city, but particularly on the West Side. We have deep investments, deep relationships and partnerships that we built. And I'm excited for those that continue," Lightfoot said.
But Johnson said his recent surge in the polls, showing him neck and neck with Lightfoot, shows his message is catching on with poor and middle class Chicagoans. "We expect to do well on the lakefront, we believe a lot of the undecided vote is breaking our way," Garcia said.Kam Buckner greeted commuters at the CTA Belmont station, and Ja'Mal Green visited restaurant patrons at Daley's in Woodlawn.WATCH: Is mayoral election a race for second place?Buckner connected with voters at an L stop on the North Side, while several other candidates including Ja'Mal Green and Willie Wilson campaigned at restaurants on the South Side.
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