“I stand here with my head held high,” Lightfoot said in her concession speech.
’s mayoral race, a bitter campaign rife with controversy and blunders, from gnome insults to accusations of fake Democrats, ended Tuesday with no candidate winning a majority of the vote, placing Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson in a runoff to be settled in April.conceded defeat in the race on Tuesday night as it became increasingly clear that voters had rejected her bid for a second term in office. “I stand here with my head held high,” she said in her concession speech.
A runoff was expected, with pundits in the Windy City predicting that more than half of the nine candidates—all self-described Democrats in a nonpartisan race—had a chance of being among the top two to qualify for the runoff, but none could realistically carry more than 50 percent of the vote on Tuesday.
The tight race, which centered around crime and the perception of it in the city, pulled out a series of embarrassing blunders by frontrunners.blasted out emails More recently, Lightfoot—one of seven Black candidates in Tuesday’s race—bizarrely remarked during a speech on the city’s south side, which is predominantly Black, that voters should just stay home if they aren’t going to vote for her.
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