ELECTION COVERAGE

No, New York Times, Lori Lightfoot Did Not Lose Because of Crime

Dispatches from the Chicago mayoral election

Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking
13 min readMar 2

After Lori Lightfoot’s defeat in the Chicago mayoral election, the headlines from the New York Times newsletter, The Morning, declared: “After a crime surge, Chicago voters have ousted their current mayor.”

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Charles Bastille
Politically Speaking

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