Chicago Will Nave No Clear Winner For Mayor on Election Night, Vallas Team Predicts
it will be too close to call,” Vallas’ campaign manager Brian Towne said Wednesday.
“We could be in a position where somebody even has a decent lead, but no one can call it. There’s no official way to do it until everything’s in. So it could take a while,” he added. “Count on it.“ “People thought we’d be waiting several days to know who was in the runoff and we were able to essentially call it around 9 p.m.,” said Jason Lee, a senior adviser for Johnson’s campaign.
In interviews Wednesday with the Sun-Times, both teams talked about how they planned to get their candidates over the finish line in what has turned into a battle for the heart and soul of Chicago.They say Vallas will be the next mayor of Chicago if he can hold his base in white ethnic wards on the Northwest and Southwest sides, downtown and in more affluent north lakefront wards, boost turnout there by up to 25%, get 25% to 30% of the African American vote and over 60% of the Latino vote.
It starts with “consolidating the African American vote,” making Hispanic majority wards a “competitive battleground demographic” and “extending that as much as possible” into working-class white communities. On the eve of a rally for Johnson headlined by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lee said: “We have that Milwaukee [Avenue] corridor base — those wards where we did very well. We think we can generate additional turnout in those wards. There’s a lot of enthusiasm we can tap into. We’re gonna look at generating as many votes from our areas of strength as possible.”
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