Chicago has few conservatives and even fewer Republicans. But outgoing Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose voters sent packing, is blaming "right-wing forces" for her well-earned defeat.
From the Daily Wire:
MSNBC contributor Al Sharpton asked Lightfoot whether she believes her race played a role in her defeat, even though her successor is also black. Lightfoot, who has repeatedly cited her race and her self-identification as a lesbian when describing her defeat, claimed that the reelection strategy of former President Donald Trump relied on attacking “cities and mayors” like herself, referencing Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta and Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C.
“There’s no question, Reverend Al, that there are some people in Chicago and across the country that don’t want mayors like me to succeed,” she continued. “When the person with the biggest megaphone and biggest stage attacks you in a way that Trump attacked us, it unleashes a set of forces that are hard to control. Those dog whistles that were blown in 2020 are still resonating today, and it was fed by the uncertainty and the anger, and then funded by right-wing forces that wanted to take down a big-city mayor.”
Leaving aside for now that Al Sharpton is the biggest race hustler in America--and a whole lot of other reprehensible stuff--Lightfoot failed to mention that Chicago's monolithic Dem base should have rallied around Lightfoot because of Trump's criticism. But her incompetence, as well as her acidic temperament, drove voters away.
In the first round of voting for mayor of Chicago this year, Lightfoot only collected 17 percent of the vote.
Were the other candidates "right-wing?"
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