Lori Lightfoot, the incumbent Chicago mayor, received only 17% of the vote last week in the first round of balloting and failed to advance to the runoff. First-place finisher Paul Vallas, who ran on a law-and-order platform, got nearly twice as many votes. Two days later, President Biden informed Senate Democrats that he would not veto a Republican-sponsored effort to overturn the District of Columbia’s newly enacted bill that would have reduced criminal sentences.
On Sunday New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and police veteran, called Ms. Lightfoot’s defeat a “warning for the country” and defended his tough-on-crime stance. “New Yorkers felt unsafe, and the numbers showed that they were unsafe,” he said. If other Democrats “want to ignore what the everyday public is stating, then that’s up to them. I’m on the subways. I walk the streets. I speak to every day working-class people. And they were concerned about safety.”
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