What Chicago’s Mayor Really Thinks About the Democratic Field
“I’m challenging our presidential candidates to think about who we are as a party, what our core values are.”
Lori Lightfoot is used to being different: She grew up in a working-class family in a small town in Ohio, where being an African American woman made her constantly underestimated. But those differences—not to mention being openly gay, which itself makes her a trailblazer as a big-city mayor—came together to propel her to a huge win for mayor of Chicago last year, despite being an outsider who had never run for office before.
Now she’s running America’s third-largest city.
“I get why people have lost confidence not only just in government, but in the governance of people,” Lightfoot told me.
The people Democrats are going to need in November are the people she’s been trying to reconnect with in Chicago, she
