'Our Black and brown coalition is back together again.' A Black progressive is competing against a white moderate to be mayor of Chicago and where the course of the city’s next four years may turn on the coveted Black vote.
Mustafa Hussain for NBC NewsCHICAGO — They wore black T-shirts bearing his image, carried “Women for Brandon Johnson” signs and steadied their phones to get ready.
“It’s real for people now,” Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor said as she left the event. Taylor said she sees momentum in the Black community for Johnson in his bid against the former schools CEO Paul Vallas. “My heart has finally dropped back to where it belongs since Chuy [Rep. Jesús Garcia, D-Ill.] has endorsed Brandon. So our Black and brown coalition is back together again.
Johnson has leaned into race at public events; at one point in a mayoral forum before a mostly Black crowd, he told Vallas, “When Black men tell you the truth, believe us.” It was in response to Vallas’ charge that Johnson wants a city income tax. by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the MSNBC host, on Sunday. That’s all on top of the deep organizational strength that comes from the teachers union, which has spent millions of dollars on Johnson’s candidacy.Vallas, meanwhile, is drawing his biggest support from the city’s white ethnic neighborhoods and its northwest side.
Vallas, 69, who has made failed bids for governor and lieutenant governor and previously ran for mayorlanding in ninth place four years ago — vaulted to lead the pack in the first round of the mayoral election. Lightfoot was ousted in her re-election bid on Feb. 28 largely because of a failure to curb violence that spiked on her watch; in 2021, Chicago recorded. Lightfoot had repeatedly noted that crime dropped year-over-year in 2022.
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