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Two new polls show Chicago's mayor in tough shape ahead of Feb. 28 nonpartisan primary [1]

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Date: 2023-01-20  

We’ll start with the survey from Lester & Associates for one of the candidates, Alderman Sophia King, that was conducted Jan. 9-14:

Rep. Chuy Garcia: 21 Mayor Lori Lightfoot: 15 Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas: 10 Alderman Sophia King: 8 Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson: 8 Wealthy perennial candidate Willie Wilson: 5 Activist Ja'Mal Green: 5 State Rep. Kam Buckner: 5

In the likely event that no one takes a majority, the top-two vote-getters would advance to the April 4 runoff. The memo says the remaining candidates took less than 1%, though the only other contender on the ballot is Alderman Roderick Sawyer.

Next up is a survey that began days later from M3 Strategies for Americans for a Safer and Better Tomorrow, though it’s not clear who the sponsor is rooting for. The numbers from the firm’s December poll are in parentheses:

Vallas: 26 (19) Garcia: 19 (28) Johnson: 12 (3) Lightfoot: 10 (15) Wilson: 9 (13) Bucker: 2 (1) Green: 1 (N/A) King: 1 (2) Sawyer: 0 (N/A)

Lightfoot got some better news Friday when she earned the backing of EMILY’s List, but there’s little question she’s in a tough spot four years after she won this office in a 74-26 landslide. Politico’s Shia Kapos recently took a look at why so much seems to be going wrong for the mayor. Kapos explains that, not only has Lightfoot had to deal with the perception that crime has risen on her watch, “There’s also an elephant in the room: her personality.”

Lightfoot’s supporters, write Kapos, argue that she’s been held to a “double standard” that her recent predecessors weren’t subject to. “When former Mayors Rahm Emanuel or Richard M. Daley cursed, for example, onlookers seemed amused or even proud of the tough Chicago mayor’s aggressiveness. When Lightfoot does it, people have taken offense — unless it’s been aimed at former President Donald Trump.”

Some of ​​Lightfoot’s former allies, though, have a different take on things. Alderman Susan Sadlowski Garza said last year she wouldn’t back the incumbent again by declaring, "I have never met anybody who has managed to piss off every single person they come in contact with—police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing."

This month another alderman, Derrick Curtis, also had some choice words for Lightfoot for failing to contact him after he was wounded when the gun he was cleaning accidentally discharged. “I felt myself being a very, very close friend and ally to her. I really was a No. 1 cheerleader,” said Curtis, “But, she never called when I shot myself … I wouldn’t treat my friends that way.”

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