Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Brandon Johnson’s narrow victory in the Chicago mayoral race is emblematic of a Democratic “Blue Wall” in Illinois and surrounding states.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker greets lawmakers before delivering his annual budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly on Feb. 15, 2023, in Springfield.
“I do believe that this is a change for the city, something new. But you know what? It’s a new generation of voters that came to the polls,” Pritzker said during an unrelated news conference on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. “I think he’s part of a kind of a sea change that’s going on in what I guess politically we’d all call ‘the Blue Wall.
Johnson defeated Paul Vallas, who insisted he was a “lifelong Democrat” but faced repeated attacks during the campaign alleging he was Republican in disguise. Vallas was endorsed by the Chicago Police Department’s largest union and took in millions of dollars from GOP donors and business owners. Pritzker acknowledged that the victory for Johnson, arguably the most leftist Democratic politician in modern times who was elected to lead Chicago, represents something different for a city that has traditionally elected more centrist Democrats.
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