Editorial: Mayor-elect Johnson found a place in his acceptance speech for God. But not Barack Obama.
On the morning after the runoff election, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is greeted by people outside the Chinatown CTA train station, April 5, 2023.
We don’t intend this as faint praise for the mayor-elect. The ability to communicate clearly, powerfully and, above all, optimistically is a crucial asset for any leader and a quality that many of Johnson’s predecessors in the office have lacked. This bully pulpit will be one of Johnson’s biggest assets. He will need it.
How did Johnson triumph in the runoff? Some factors are obvious. The Chicago Teachers Union, which had supported his campaign to an extraordinary extent, continued its legendary ground game, getting out the vote, or at least the right votes from the union’s point of view. Johnson’s campaign was successful in defining the opposition. Vallas, a centrist and policy wonk at heart, was not just reluctant but personally unwilling and unable to return that fire.
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