'[Brandon4Chicago] Johnson is in a full-blown sprint away from his associations with the 'defund the police' movement. He knows no one wants to hear about it in Chicago, where crime has only gotten worse,' ZacharyFaria writes.
Chicago’s jungle primary takes the top two candidates and pits them against each other in a general-election runoff. Paul Vallas, who ran on crime, won the primary with 32% of the vote. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson finished second with 21%, beating out Lightfoot but starting out behind Vallas for the general. The polls so far confirm that the dynamic has remained, with Vallas leading Johnson 45%-39%.
Brandon Johnson, who has been vocal supporting defund the police and redirecting resources to fund other programs, now says this: “I said it was a political goal. I never said it was mine.”— Illinois Policy March 15, 2023 That is a far cry from what Johnson has said previously, though. In September 2020, Johnson touted an article headlined “Calls to defund the police no longer seem like such a radical idea.
Just not his political goal, supposedly. He has only boasted about the movement’s progress, complained about the level of police funding, and refused to promise to fill vacant police department positions. But really, Chicago voters, he is not in favor of defunding the police. Why would you get that idea?Activists and sympathetic media outlets fabricated the popularity of the"defund the police" movement because it was popular among them.
As a result, Johnson is in a full-blown sprint away from his associations with the"defund the police" movement. He knows no one wants to hear about it in Chicago, where crime has only gotten worse. He is hoping that Chicago voters are just gullible enough to forget his past positions and elect a mayor who may be even softer on crime than Lightfoot was.
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