Lori Lightfoot torpedoed over re-election campaign: 'Worst mayor in America, worst mayor Chicago has ever had' - Fox News

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's re-election was ridiculed by critics Thursday arsenic her run touted her grounds connected transgression and sought the assistance of pupil volunteers successful speech for schoolhouse credit.

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld enactment Lightfoot connected blast, arguing connected "The Five" that "she's not warring for crime; she's warring for power."

Lightfoot announced she would question re-election arsenic the Windy City's politician successful June 2022. Crime has spiked astir 40% since she took bureau successful 2019 and homicides roseate to their highest numbers successful 25 years successful 2021. 

Gutfeld said different people's suffering lone comes crossed Lightfoot's radar "when it's a governmental threat."

"It does amusement the quality betwixt Democrats and Republicans," helium argued. "Republicans thin to face their occupation children, beryllium it [George] Santos oregon idiosyncratic else. The Dems conscionable elite them, you know, to beryllium a humanities first."

Lori Lightfoot, politician of Chicago, speaks during a quality league successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Lightfoot defended her nationalist information strategy connected Wednesday aft metropolis assembly members, residents and a watchdog radical expressed concerns implicit constabulary section staffing and a deficiency of fund transparency. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He continued arguing Lightfoot is simply a humanities archetypal but not successful the mode she wants to beryllium remembered. 

"She's the archetypal politician to beryllium nether the thumb of cartels. She's the worst politician successful America, the worst politician Chicago has ever had," Gutfeld said. "She looks similar she hasn't slept since 1983. She dresses similar she pantsed the Salvation Army doorbell ringer."

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"Why don't the Democrats telephone her retired connected her record? Why don't they accidental anything? It's due to the fact that they're cowards, and two, she's protected by her diverseness shield. Right?. A achromatic lesbian left-winger." Gutfeld said. 

"So they're consenting to fto the metropolis conscionable beryllium run into the ground. A 40% summation successful murder. No White feline could get distant with that."

Co-host Geraldo Rivera agreed transgression has go the main governmental contented for mayoral candidates but believes Lightfoot volition get re-elected. 

"The overwhelmingly achromatic and mediocre fractional of the metropolis is wherever most of the pack unit is happening. Chicago is connected way present to person implicit seven- oregon had - implicit 700 murders and led the federation by acold successful murders laBt year. So she runs connected a precise tenuous record," Rivera said. 

"The occupation from her constituent of presumption politically is that present that fearfulness of crime, that implicit panic has radical connected the north broadside of town, the much affluent broadside of town, getting backstage constabulary forces, information guards. So it's there. The full tempo of beingness successful the Windy City has been undermined."

Lightfoot precocious came nether occurrence aft her run reportedly sent emails to the Chicago Public Schools strategy asking teachers to promote students to unpaid for her run successful speech for schoolhouse credit. The solicitation was rescinded, and Lightfoot said during a Thursday property league the emails were "clearly a mistake" and placed blasted connected a staffer.

Rivera said it was a "brilliant" thought but had an "inherent dishonesty" to it. 

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"You could overgarment it arsenic a ‘what a large program.’ ‘Get the kids progressive successful politics, municipal authorities and truthful forth.’ But I deliberation Chicago is successful a unspeakable place," helium lamented, "I deliberation that Greg is right. I deliberation she volition beryllium re-elected. And I deliberation there's thing that you tin bash astir it."