Chicago Mayoral Election: New Poll shows Lightfoot in fourth
AND new voter opinion poll shows where candidates for mayor of Chicago run.
CHICAGO – AND new an opinion poll showed that Paul Wallas and Rep. Chui Garcia leading field with nine candidates for mayor of Chicago.
Top two finishers in next monthly voting will compete in repeat elections on 4 April.
And despite having spent several million dollars on campaign advertising in In recent weeks, incumbent Lori Lightfoot has slipped to fourth place. place, behind teachers union employee Brandon Johnson.
Polster Matt Podgorsky, of political consulting firm M3, said: big The takeaway we saw is that Chui Garcia and Paul Wallas basically flipped the commercials. Now I have Paul Wallas in first place with 26% and Chui Garcia in second with nineteen%.”
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AND new voter opinion poll in in race for Mayor of Chicago show Lori Lightfoot loses ground among nine candidates.
Garcia was the target of negative attack an ad shown by Lightfoot this month.
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The West Side congressman has not yet begun airing ads on television. of his own. Leader of Garcia campaign told FOX 32 Chicago News that once Garcia leaves up on in the air plans stay up to February 28, day first-round votes to be counted by the Chicago Board of Election commissioners.
Johnson, whose campaign highly dependent on cash from the teachers’ union seems to have benefited from the aggressive schedule of paid media. He broke out of just 3.2% in The December M3 poll this week was 12.2%.
Mayor Lightfoot campaign spending did not stop decline in support found by poll. She fell from 14.5% in December in single digit territory this week: 9.8%.
Multimillionaire businessman Willie Wilson also lost ground under my feet in poll M3. Wilson had 13.1% in December; 8.5% this week.
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Candidates were asked how they will focus on bringing businesses to Chicago, affordable housing, and improving mental health. options for young people.
The M3 poll was conducted Jan. 15-17, ahead of Thursday night’s mayoral debate. AND total of 531 likely voters participated, including 49 who graduated from Spanishlanguage version of questions. The accuracy is plus or minus 4.25 percent. points.
Lightfoot’s Representative campaign attacked the poll by naming race “complicated.”
wallas campaign says the survey proves that they already knew.
“The Epistle of Paul of put crime and Chicago safety first clearly resonates with voters and our campaign It has financial resources and support you need to keep posting this home over in next six weeks,” said Wallas. campaign chief strategist Joe Trippi.
Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson issued a statement saying: people of Chicago Ready for new leadership, and we prove that there is the best way forward… city turned the page on Mayor Lightfoot and business-as usual politics. It’s time to move Chicago forward and announce in a new dawn of people-first politicians”.
Candidate Willie Wilson also released a statement calling the poll “garbage”.
M3 Polling Protected Integrity of in results based on how the likely voters were chosen.
“All likely voters in in city of Chicago, it was chance of contact. Answer group was carefully balanced raceregion, gender, age, language, and even how they voted in 2020 for President,” Podgorsky said.
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With Paul Wallas in first and Chuy Garcia second they would currently be most likely compete in the second round of elections on April 4, consisting of two people.
” big The conclusion we saw was that Chuy Garcia and Paul Wallas basically got the seats mixed up,” Podgorski said.
In a poll taken earlier this week ahead of Thursday night’s debate, Wallas had 26%, Congressman Garcia had 19%. veteran teachers union employee Brandon Johnson 12.2%, with Mayor Lightfoot fell to 9.8% in fourth place.
While the mayor is negative attack advertising may have contributed to Garcia’s loss of almost nine percent points because the last month, apparently it did not help her. Lightfoot lost almost five percent points because the last monthly survey M3.
“Now we see Brandon Johnson grow in in third place with 12% while incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot lost everything staggeringly way down up to the fourth place”, – said Podgorsky. – In fact, in survey, we specifically asked if you had seen, read or heard any information about the candidate recently and those who said yes, she was 30% underwater in terms of how what influenced their opinion of her.”
Lightfoot may have been damaged last opening of the week that her campaign made inappropriate attempts to recruit students and faculty in both public schools and city colleges.
Wallas celebrated these results by pushing them out supporters in email. Mayor Lightfoot, not really. A spokeswoman called the poll deeply flawed – Podgorski’s claim was rejected.
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Full information on the survey could be found in PDF below:
