The attacks on Johnson come as his standing has steadily risen in polls released by rival campaigns and civic organizations, even as the race remains fluid.
But Lightfoot focused on Johnson during Monday’s debate hosted by NBC5 and WVON, the last to feature all nine candidates for mayor, repeatedly saying that Johnson’s plan to invest in programs to reduce crime without increasing the size of the Chicago Police Department would make Chicago less safe. Lightfoot has called Johnson, the son of a pastor, a “false prophet.”
Johnson, who lives in Austin, has repeatedly said that no other candidate for mayor has “more of an incentive for the city of Chicago to work for Black people than someone who is married to a Black woman, raising Black children on the West Side,” and emphasized his lived experience as someone who lives in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.
Johnson, who has represented Cook County’s 1st District on the Cook County Board of Commissioners since 2018, said he welcomed his turn in the spotlight, telling the crowd at the debate that it was clear evidence he was now the race’s front runner.
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