There is talk Lori might not make it to the runnoff.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ut/ar-AA17FRX4
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is in danger of an early re-election knockout
NBC News ^ | February 19, 2023 | Natasha Korecki
CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot is the first to admit her bid for re-election will be far from smooth.
“There’s nine people on the ballot,” Lightfoot said in an interview with NBC News. “It’s impossible not to have a runoff.”
What’s appearing increasingly possible, however, is that Lightfoot will fail to make it even that far.
In Chicago’s municipal election, if a candidate fails to win a majority, then the top two vote-getters face off against each other in a second round of voting in April.
But with less than two weeks to the Feb. 28 election, the firecracker Democratic first-term mayor — who quickly brandished a national hate-hate relationship with conservatives — faces credible threats from at least three opponents in the nine-person race. Her unfavorables have soared with Chicagoans fed up with gun violence. In recent polling, she's failed to break into the top two.
All that adds up to the stunning prospect that a sitting big-city mayor could be eliminated from re-election contention in the first round of voting.
"It's looking harder and harder for her," one of her competitors, Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, said in an interview. "It's a hell of a front to be fighting on, from her vantage point."