Crime Is Top Issue in Chicago Mayoral Race

“For years, Republicans have sought to win over voters by depicting Democratic-led cities as lawless facilities of violence that want tough-on-crime insurance policies. In Chicago, a number of the Democrats operating for mayor are deploying the identical technique as they debate how you can make the town safer,” the AP stories.

“Even incumbent Lori Lightfoot, the primary Black girl and first overtly homosexual individual to function Chicago mayor, has used language proper out of the GOP playbook, accusing a prime rival in her reelection bid of desirous to defund the police.”

“The shift in rhetoric displays the diploma to which issues about crime have dominated Tuesday’s mayoral election in Chicago and threatened Lightfoot’s reelection bid. Removed from being an outlier, the nation’s third-largest metropolis is simply the most recent Democratic stronghold the place public security has change into a prime election challenge.”

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