Paul Vallis ran a campaign very clearly from the furthest left you can sort of reasonably run. He raised almost three times as more than Brandon Johnson. Despite what Vallis has said, he was definitely not fun. The current Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot was voted out during the democratic primary.
In this public News Brief, we break down Johnson's "surprise" win and how it undermines every lazy media trope involving local Democratic politics pushed over the last two years.