Some mayors became punchlines. Some quit from exhaustion. And Lori Lightfoot met fate at the ballot box.
Perhaps the closest analogue to Lightfoot is Pittsburgh’s Bill Peduto. A well-liked two-term mayor who ran unopposed in the 2017 general election, Peduto found himself in a 2021 primary with a serious challenger on the left, as well as a former police officer sapping his support on the right. He lost by seven points—the first incumbent to lose a re-election bid in Pittsburgh since 1933!There are exceptions to this rule: Washington, D.C.
For her part, Lightfoot won a nine-way primary in 2019 with 17 percent of the vote. But she had widespread support in the subsequent runoff, beating the well-known local Democrat Toni Preckwinkle in every single one of the city’s wards to become the city’s first Black mayor since Harold Washington.Progressives never forgave her for shutting down the subway during the George Floyd protests and even raising the city’s drawbridges, giving the Chicago River the look of a medieval moat.
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