>> HELLO AND THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION NIGHT EDITION OF CHICAGO TONIGHT.

I'M BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, A LOT OF RESULTS ARE IN AND OUR SPOTLIGHT POLITICS TEAM IS HERE TO GIVE ANALYSIS ON THE BRING CHICAGO HOME REFERENDUM AND OTHER KEY RACES.

BUT FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO LIVE TO WT TW NEWS REPORTER NICK BLUMBERG AT THE HEADQUARTERS.

A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY EILEEN WHAT IS GOING ON THERE AND HEARINGS AND CHEERING HAPPENING BEHIND YOU RIGHT NOW?

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

WE ARE HEARING AN INTRODUCTION RIGHT NOW FROM ATTORNEY PAT SAUDI, A SUPPORTER OF RETIRED JUDGE AND LAWYER.

>> EILEEN O'NEILL, BURKE, WHO RIGHT NOW WITH ABOUT 83% OF VOTES SHE IS OUT IN THE LEAD.

ACCORDING TO AP ESTIMATES, NOTHING HAS BEEN CONCEDED OR DECLARED, BUT WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR HER AND ADDRESS HER SUPPORTERS HERE.

THERE'S A VERY EXCITED CROWD.

SHE JUMPED OUT TO AN EARLY NEEDS.

EARLY LEAD AS THE VOTE STARTED TO COME IN TONIGHT.

SO CERTAINLY THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF EXCITEMENT IN THE ROOM, ESPECIALLY AS THOSE HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY STABLE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.

YOU KNOW, THIS WAS A VERY CONTENTIOUS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY YOU KNOW, WITH KIM FOXX OPTING NOT TO RUN FOR ANOTHER TERM IN OFFICE, THE DEMOCRATIC PUT ITS SUPPORT BEHIND CLAYTON.

HERE THE 3RD AS FOX'S SUCCESSOR, BUT MARK O'NEAL, BURKE MADE A STRONG CASE AND HERE SHE IS TO ADDRESS HER SUPPORTERS.

LET'S LISTEN TO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY.

>> SO WE MODIFIED NOTHING LIKE HAVING A TRIAL ATTORNEY MODIFY HIS CLOSING ARGUMENT RIGHT BEFORE YOU GET HERE.

>> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

WE ARE LEADING IN THE POLLS AND WE HAVE BEEN LEADING THE WHOLE NIGHT WITH WE HAVE A CURRENT LEAD OF JUST UNDER 12,000 VOTES.

WE ARE ASHA SLEE, OPTIMISTIC, BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED.

BUT I KNOW THAT WE CAN AGREE THAT THIS HAS BEEN A HARD FOUGHT CAMPAIGN RUNNING FOR OFFICE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF DID I LEARN THAT ONE?

AND WHILE WE MAY HAVE HAD OUR DIFFERENCES IN THIS ELECTION, WE ALL SHARE THE LOVE FOR THIS CITY AND THIS COUNTY.

I KNOW THAT THE LOVE FOR THIS PLACE THAT WE CALL HOME IS SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL SHARE AS WELL.

IT'S WHY I STEPPED DOWN FROM THE APPELLATE COURT TO RUN FOR THIS JOB.

THIS IS TRULY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WORLD.

LINE OF THIS STUDY TAKES MY BREATH AWAY EACH AND EVERY TIME I SEE IT.

I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE.

I MY HUSBAND HERE.

WE RAISED OUR 4 CHILDREN HERE.

MY FAMILY HAS BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS.

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS A BABY CHICAGO DURING THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE.

I GOT INTO THIS RACE BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO GIVE UP CHICAGO.

AND I KNOW TONIGHT THAT I CAN SAY THAT NONE OF YOU WANT TO GIVE UP CHICAGO EITHER.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE HERE.

YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A MILLION REASONS NOT TO GET INTO THIS RACE.

AND MOST PEOPLE I TALKED TO THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS REALLY NOT SOME I SHOULD BE DOING.

BUT I HAD A STUBBORN BELIEF THAT I JUST COULDN'T SHAKE.

I BELIEVE THAT WE COULD MAKE OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM WORK FOR EVERYONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD IN EVERY TOWN ACROSS COOK COUNTY.

I THAT'S EVER WOULD HAVE WE'RE HEARING NOW FROM STATE ATTORNEY CANDIDATE EILEEN WHO IS NOT DECLARING VICTORY, BUT SAYING THAT SHE IS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.

SPEAKING TO HER SUPPORTERS HERE.

>> AT HER CAMPAIGN NIGHT KEEP LISTENING TO THE SPEECH AND UPDATE YOU LATER ON.

ALSO HEAR HOPE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF HER SUPPORTERS.

BUT FOR NOW, BACK TO YOU IN THE STUDIO.

THANKS SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE IT.

>> AND OF COURSE, THERE'S A LOT TO TALK ABOUT AND WHAT'S TURNED OUT TO BE A REALLY INTERESTING ELECTION NIGHT.

JOINING US NOW WITH ANALYSIS OF ALL THAT'S GONE ON TONIGHT'S OUR SPOTLIGHT, POLITICS AND OF AN ICKY HEATHER SHARON AND PARIS SHOT.

SO OBVIOUSLY WE WILL GET BACK TO THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S RACE SHORTLY BECAUSE WE'RE WATCHING THAT ONE CLOSELY.

BUT I WANT TO START WITH THE BRING CHICAGO HOME REFERENDUM.

HEATHER.

IT IS CURRENTLY TOO CLOSE TO CALL LOTS OF MAIL IN BALLOTS STILL OUTSTANDING.

BUT THIS COULD BE A BIG BLOW TO MAYOR JOHNSON.

IF DOES NOT BREAK HIS WAY, RIGHT, THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, IT WAS TRAILING BY ABOUT 23,000 VOTES.

BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THERE ARE AT LEAST 109 MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE RECEIVED TODAY AND HAVE NOT YET BEEN PROCESSED OR COUNTED.

>> THAT MEAN THE ALSO THE CHICAGO BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS WILL COUNT BALLOTS UP UNTIL APRIL SECOND, AS LONG AS BALLOTS ARE POSTMARKED BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

SO THIS IS THE KIND RACE WHERE THE MARGIN IS SO SLIM AND THAT MAKEUP MAIL-IN BALLOTS MAY BE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED TODAY IN PERSON.

IT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

NEITHER SIDE IS DECLARING VICTORY OR LOSS TODAY.

I THINK THE BRING CHICAGO HOME ORGANIZERS ARE LITTLE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I THINK THEY THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A VICTORY IN A CLEAR VICTORY.

IT'S CLEARLY NOT.

THAT'S IT DOES END UP PASSING.

IT WILL BE A VERY SLIM MARGIN, WHICH I THINK WILL MEAN THAT BRENDAN JOHNSON, THE MAYOR BACKED IT.

IT'S GOING TO SORT OF HAVE TO CAMPAIGN TO GET THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL IF HE EVEN GETS THAT OPPORTUNITY.

YOU KNOW, IN A LOW TURNOUT ELECTION.

>> AND WHEN BOOTS ON THE GROUND MAKE UP ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

THIS THIS IS NOT A GOOD RESULT.

EVEN IF IF, AS HEATHER SAYS THEY IN THOSE MAIL AND SAY WE HAVE TO WIN A PRETTY BIG PERCENTAGE OF THOSE MAILINGS TO COME BACK AND MAYBE SQUEAK WENT OUT.

BUT IF THEY DO END UP LOSING THESE HOLD, THIS WAS AT THE CENTERPIECE OF MAYOR JOHNSON'S AGENDA.

AND I DO THINK IT'S A MESSAGE AGAIN, IF IT HOLDS TO THE MAYOR AND AND TO TO THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST CAUCUS THAT VOTERS AREN'T NECESSARILY GOING ALONG WITH ALL OF WHAT THEY'RE SELLING RIGHT NOW.

I ALSO THINK THAT THIS BRING CHICAGO HOME MORGAN SUFFERED FROM A LACK OF SPECIFICITY THAT THERE WAS SOME CRITICISM THAT, YOU KNOW, LET'S GET THE 100 MILLION DOLLARS FIRST AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO DECIDE HOW THIS APPARATUS WERE STILL BEING ADVISORY COUNCIL TO DETERMINE HOW IT ALL WORKS.

I DON'T THINK A LOT OF VOTERS ARE A FEW VERY COMFORTABLE OKAY, LET'S LET'S LET'S HIKE TAXES AND GIVE YOU MORE MONEY AND THEN THEN YOU FIGURE OUT LATER HOW YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND IT.

SO THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH THIS FROM THE BEGINNING AND IF IF THE IF THESE RESULTS DO INDEED HOLD, I THINK THAT IT IT'S IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG SETBACK FOR THEM.

THERE'S BIG SETBACK FOR HIS AGENDA, BOTH IN TERMS OF >> HIS HIS LEADERSHIP, WHAT SORT OF POWER HE HAS.

SO IT'S A STEP BACK FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW, BUT ALSO >> FROM A FISCAL ONE BECAUSE THIS IS MONEY THAT, AS YOU NOTED, THEY SAID CLEAR ON WHERE IT'S GOING TO GO ABROAD.

LEE, IT IS GOING TO GO TO DEAL WITH A ISSUE OF HOMELESSNESS.

THAT IS CLEARLY PREVALENT IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

BUT IT WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE.

AGAIN, THE MAYOR PROMISING NOT GOING TO RAISE PROPERTY TAXES.

THERE IS MONEY THAT IS VERY NECESSARY FOR A NEW SORT ON SLIDE OF THOSE WHO ARE LIKELY DOOR COULD BE ON HOUSE.

AND THAT IS, OF COURSE, THE MIGRANTS COMING IN.

SO THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MONEY THAT COULD HAVE FREED UP SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT CHICAGO IS FACING FISCALLY THAT IF IT DOESN'T PASS AGAIN, NOT ONLY A KNOCK TO HIS SORT OF POWER AND ESTABLISHMENT THERE BUT ACTUAL DOLLARS AND CENTS.

HEATHER, WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS THAT MADE?

THE DIFFERENCE HERE FOR VOTERS IS JUST SORT OF OPPOSITION TO ANY GENERAL SORT OF TAX INCREASE?

WELL, IT'S HARD TO TELL.

CERTAIN IS WHETHER IT WAS SORT AND SORT OF AN OPPOSITION TO WHOLE NOTION OF A REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAX HIKE OR IF THERE WAS JUST SO MUCH CONFUSION ABOUT WHETHER THE VOTES ARE GOING TO COUNTER WHETHER THE MEASURE WAS INVALID OR WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.

SO THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE THINKING SINCE WE'RE ALL WRITING.

>> 85,000 BRING CHICAGO HOME STORIES THAT THAT WAS GOING TO SORT OF HELP IT OVER THE FINISH LINE.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S THE CASE BECAUSE IF YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, THIS MIGHT NOT BE LEGAL OR MIGHT NOT BE VALID, THAT CAN RAISE QUESTIONS IN PEOPLE'S MINDS AND MAYBE THEY JUST SAY I'M GOING TO THROW MY HANDS AND SKIP IT.

BUT I ALSO DO THINK THERE'S A FRUSTRATION WITH WHEN YOU'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THAT THINGS ARE GOING.

THIS NOTION OF SENDING MORE MONEY TO THAT IN, THERE'S CLEARLY A SENSE OF DISSATISFACTION IN SOME AREAS OF THE THERE ARE, ADVOCATES WOULD SAY THAT WE MADE THESE PROMISES WHEN YOU CAN SEE THE UN HOUSE, WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

AND THIS IS THE SOLUTION.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE FOLKS.

>> PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.

BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK YOU HAD A VERY WELL-FUNDED OPPOSITION THAT WAS SAYING THIS IS GOING TO RAISE YOUR RENT.

IT'S NOT A QUOTE, UNQUOTE, MANSION TAX.

IT'S MORE THAN I HEARD MORE OF THAT THAN I DID.

THIS IS THE MANSION TAX, WHICH FRANKLY IS PROBABLY AN ARGUMENT THAT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HER PARENTS.

YOU KNOW, THIS, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, THIS IS VERY CENTRAL TO THE MAYOR'S PROGRESSIVE AGENDA.

YOU KNOW, IS HE GOING TO DOUBLE DOWN?

>> ON THIS OR IS HE GOING SWITCH IT UP A LITTLE BIT?

I THINK THE MAYOR'S I I DON'T HAVE ANY INSIGHT ON THIS OTHER THAN JUST OBSERVING HIM, BUT I THINK HE HAS TO BE WHO HE IS GOING TO BE, WHO HE IS, WHICH HE GOT ELECTED AS A PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION.

>> HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CTU.

THE CTU HAS HEAVILY BACKED HIS CAMPAIGN.

THEY HAVE A LOT INVESTED IN HIM.

AND SO I THINK IT WOULD LOOK A LITTLE.

YOU KNOW, IT TAKE IF YOU DECIDED TO ATTACK AT THIS POINT.

SO HE COULD, YOU KNOW, AS HEATHER BROUGHT UP, YOU COULD SAY, VOTERS ARE CONFUSED BECAUSE OF ALL THE LEGAL CHALLENGES.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T LOST YET.

WE'RE GOING TO TRY THIS AGAIN IN THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE OR I MEAN, IF YOU CLEARLY POLITICALLY CALCULATING AND THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST CAUCUS WHERE WE'RE MORE POLITICALLY CALCULATING.

I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS AND SAY, FIRST OF ALL, MAYOR ONLY BE PAUL VALLAS WITH A VERY UNATTRACTIVE MANY PEOPLE BUY BUY, YOU KNOW, NOT WHAT, 4, 5, PERCENTAGE POINTS.

IT'S NOT A MANDATE.

>> AND IN.

>> THEY'VE BEEN GIVEN THIS POWER, BUT TO TO JUST GO FULL BORE ON THAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AGENDA IS PROBABLY NOT GOING WORK OUT POLITICALLY AS THESE RESULTS ARE SHOWING THEM THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO TACK A LITTLE MORE TO THIS END OR NOT TO THE MIDDLE, BUT MAYBE COME OFF THE FAR LEFT A LITTLE BIT.

AND MORE TO THE BUT THAT'S NOT WHERE THEY ARE.

SO I WOULD I WOULD TRUST ARE GOING TO STAY AUTHENTIC IN JOHNSON'S ALLIES HAVE FOR LISA BRING CHICAGO HOME.

COALITION HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THAT THEY FIND THE RESULTS DISAPPOINTING, BUT THEY SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS GOING TO MAKE A CAMPAIGN STRONGER.

>> IN THE END, CLEARLY NOT GIVING UP ON THIS NOTION SAYING THAT THEY HAVE RESOLVE THAT THEY HAVE DONE THE WORK AND THAT THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO SO.

ALL RIGHT.

SO LET'S LET'S PUSH INTO THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S RACE BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHERE WE JUST HEARD OUR COLLEAGUE NICK WEINBERG AT A AT A CAMPAIGN WATCH PARTY FOR EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE.

THAT ONE IS ANOTHER ONE THAT IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL.

IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW.

BURKE HAS SLIGHT EDGE OVER.

>> CLAYTON, HARRIS, PARIS.

IS THIS A SURPRISE?

>> I I YOU KNOW WHAT?

THIS WAS AND I'M GOING TO GO DOWN GOING TO BE FIFTY-FIFTY NO MATTER WHAT.

I THINK NO ONE CAN REALLY HANDICAP THIS.

AND AGAIN, WITH LOW TURNOUT, USUALLY THE RULE IS THE FOLKS THAT HAVE THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND.

AND CLAYTON HARRIS HAD THEM THAT THE COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT TONI PRECKWINKLE GROUPS LIKE THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION HANDING OUT PAMPHLETS KNOCKING ON DOORS, 20 PREGNANT WAS MAKING PHONE CALLS UP FOR CLAYTON HARRIS.

SO YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE A BIG ADVANTAGE IN A LOW TURNOUT ELECTION?

BUT IT LOOKS I THINK THIS IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL.

AND ONCE AGAIN, IT WOULD SEEM THAT IF EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE PULLS THIS OUT, IT'S A SIGN THAT A SLIGHT MAJORITY OF COOK COUNTY RESIDENTS DO NOT LIKE THE DIRECTION OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE RIGHT NOW.

DO NOT LIKE THE PERCEIVED SOFTER ON LOW-LEVEL CRIME APPROACHING.

I LEAN ON A BURKE HAS SAID WE'RE GOING TO BE TOUGH ON CRIME AND ESPECIALLY THOSE RETAIL THEFTS OF SMASH-AND-GRABS.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET PEOPLE OFF THE HOOK FOR THAT.

WE'RE GOING TO PEOPLE CHARGE THEM WITH FELONIES.

YOU KNOW.

SO SO AGAIN, ANOTHER REBUKE TO TO PRECKWINKLE'S AGENDA AGAIN.

IF THESE HOLD THAT WE DON'T KNOW THAT THESE ARE GOING HOLD AND HARRIS COULD COME BACK BY THE WAY, ON UBER DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO MAKE THAT ARGUMENT.

SO A LOT OF CASES YOU WOULD HAVE THE ESTABLISHMENT THAT WOULD HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF NOT JUST THE ARMY, BUT ALSO THE FINANCING.

>> IN THIS CASE THAT ISN'T NEW BURKE REALLY HAD A LITTLE MONEY TO GO ON BROADCAST TO MAKE THIS ARGUMENT TO TAKE IT TO VOTERS.

WHO IS PARIS AND POINTED OUT IT AT LEAST HALF A HOME RESIDENTS AND VOTERS ARE BUYING INTO THE ARGUMENT.

SHE HAD THE WHERE THESE WHAT YOU THINK IS GOING MAKE DIFFERENCE IN THIS RACE.

AND WANT TO GET TO CONGRESSIONAL RACES AND WE KNOW AS I SAID, THAT THERE ARE 110 MAIL-IN BALLOTS COMING FROM CHICAGO.

SO IT'S THOSE BALLOTS ARE FROM WARDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF BLACK RESIDENTS.

THOSE ARE THE VOTERS THAT PUSHED JOHNSON OVER PAUL VALLAS.

AND IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS CONTEST IS GOING TO BE CLOSER THAN THAT FOR 5 PERCENTAGE POINT RACE.

BUT WE DID SEE JOHNSON GETTING SIGNIFICANTLY ON DALLAS HAS ALL OF THE MAIL IN BALLOTS WERE COUNTED.

SO THAT IS WHY CLAYTON HARRIS IS OPTIMISTIC TONIGHT.

AND THAT'S BY O'NEALE BURKE IS A LITTLE BIT.

I WOULD IMAGINE HOLDING HER BREATH.

SO IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL.

BUT I THINK THIS IS WE ALSO DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS SUBURBAN COOK RACES.

IT'S DIFFERENT, OF COURSE, THAN THE MAYOR'S IN TERMS OF HOW BREAK OUT AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT HOW LOW THE TURNOUT WAS.

THE TURNOUT ENDED UP BEING ABOUT 20% IN THE CITY.

ONLY ABOUT 17% IN THE SUBURBS.

THAT MEANS POTENTIALLY THERE ARE MORE CITY VOTES LEFT TO COUNT SUBURBAN VOTE.

>> IT'S HARD TO TELL, BUT THIS IS WHY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IS ARE THE THINGS TO COVER BECAUSE THESE ARE THE IMPACT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND HAVE REAL WORLD IMPACT.

BY THE WAY, ON THE PRIMARY LIKELY, I MEAN, IF THERE IS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, OUT HERE READY IN THE STATE'S ATTORNEY RACE, BUT PERTAIN YOU RIGHT BUT JUST THE WAY THAT U.S. IS GOING TO SEE EXAMPLE OF AN OFFICER, THAT'S A DIRECT IMPACT ON ALL OF OUR LIVES.

YOU KNOW, AND SO MANY FOLKS ARE KIND OF.

>> YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING NATIONALLY AND THEY SHOULD BE, BUT THEY DON'T PAY SO MUCH WATCHING US RIGHT NOW.

WHAT WE'RE PREACHING THERE ARE FOLKS THAT DON'T WATCH AND THEY THEY NOT EVEN KNOW THERE WAS AN ELECTION GOING ON TONIGHT.

AND THESE ARE THE RATE THAT REALLY SETS HER UP.

SO ANOTHER ONE OF RACES, THOUGH, THAT AREA, ESPECIALLY FOR FOLKS WHO LIVE IN THE 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT VETERAN CONGRESSMAN DANNY DAVIS SEEN OFF 4 CHALLENGERS TONIGHT.

AMANDA WAS CHICAGO TREASURE MELISSA CONYERS, URBAN FINISHING A DISTANT SECOND.

IS THIS A SURPRISE THAT HE WON SO EASILY?

YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK NECESSARILY A SURPRISE IN THE SENSE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A SPLIT VOTE OF CHALLENGERS THAT FAVORS THE INCUMBENT, HE'S GOT THE NAME RECOGNITION.

>> ONE WOULD THINK THAT CONYERS IRVINE WOULD HAVE THE CLOSEST I SHE HAD BEEN EYEING THE FACT THAT DAVIS WAS IN TROUBLE LAST TIME AROUND A COUPLE YEARS BACK.

SHE FACED HER OWN ETHICAL ISSUES THAT I THINK REALLY PRESENTED A PROBLEM FOR HER BEING TRUE CHALLENGE TO NOT NOT A HUGE SURPRISE, BUT STILL, I THINK A REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR DANNY DAVIS, YOU KNOW, NEARLY 81 YEARS OLD IN WHENEVER YOU HAVE THAT MANY CANDIDATES IN ONE RACE AND YOU CAN WIN MORE THAN 50% VOTE.

I THINK THAT IS A SIGN THAT THE MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS IN THAT DISTRICT ARE HAPPY WITH SORT OF WHAT HE'S DOING.

>> AND I THINK YOU CANNOT DISCOUNT SORT OF JUST THE DECADES OF GOOD WILL AND RESPECT THAT.

THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE IN THAT DISTRICT FEEL FOR HIM.

I THINK IT'S ALSO A SENSE THAT IT WHAT IT FELT SOMEWHAT RUDE TO HIS SUPPORTERS THAT THESE SORT OF YOUNGER CANDIDATES WERE SORT PUSHING HIM OUT THE DOOR BEFORE HE WAS READY TO GO.

WILL HE RUN AGAIN IN 2 YEARS?

WE'LL HAVE TO HE DIDN'T SAY HE WAS IT LIKE HE'S PRETTY VISIBLE DURING YOU PUTTING YOU SAW DANNY DAVIS OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY SAY WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU.

KNOW, YOU HAVE A LOT YOU YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE ARE THE CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN MORE IDEOLOGICALLY FOLK, ESPECIALLY KEEN TO COLIN.

SOMETIMES IT JUST COMES DOWN TO.

>> ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION OR LISTEN, OUR PROBLEM SO YOU CAN HELP FIX OUR PROBLEMS LIKE THE FLOODING.

AND SO IF THE DISTRICT DOESN'T MATTER AND HE DID SO, BY THE WAY, HAVE THE ESTABLISHMENT BACKING ALL THE HOMEOWNERS.

IRVINE IS HOLD OFFICE.

SHE'S THE CITY TREASURER.

HE HAD THE BACKING OF PRETTY MUCH ANY AND EVERY DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE AS WELL AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

LET'S GO DOWN STATE 12 DISTRICT PRIMARY, INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MIKE BOST HAS A SIGNIFICANT LEAD OVER DARREN BAILEY WHO WE ALL RECALL RAN AS A REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR.

>> IS THIS A SURPRISE OR DOES IT JUST SORT OF, YOU KNOW, ILLUSTRATE THAT THE POWER OF AN ENDORSEMENT FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT?

YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE.

I CERTAINLY I WOULD THINK THAT THE ENDORSEMENT OF DONALD TRUMP PLAYED SOME SORT OF ROLE IN THIS RACE.

AND THIS IS EVIDENT IN THE FACT THAT BAILEY HAD COVID HE HAD RECEIVED TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT WHEN HE RAN FOR GOVERNOR.

AND SO.

>> THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IN THIS DISTRICT WOULDN'T HAVE CERTAINLY HEARD, BUT ALSO THIS IS BAILEY, DESPITE HAVING ALL THAT NAME RECOGNITION AND HAVING LONG LIVED IN THE DISTRICT.

I MEAN, THIS IS A HUGE AREA.

THIS IS REALLY THE BOTTOM.

3RD OF THE STATE IS COVERED NEARLY 5.

THIS DISTRICT.

AND SO HE'S BEEN AROUND.

HE HAS THE NAME RECOGNITION FROM MANY YEARS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THEN SERVING AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND THE FIGHT THAT BAILEY HAD BEEN TRYING TO SAY WAS THAT HE'S NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH WHEN BOST, HE'S LONG ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVES OF NOT JUST A NOISE DELEGATION, BUT IN GENERAL.

SO HE WASN'T TO BE OUT CONSERVATIVE.

I GUESS IT.

I MADE UP THAT WORD RIGHT AGAIN.

SURE IF IT IS NECESSARILY A SURPRISE, BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT THE MONEY, BAYLEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY AND SO SORT OF HIS GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT THAT HAD GOTTEN OFF THE GROUND FOR GOVERNOR.

NOT SO MUCH.

OKAY.

A 4TH DISTRICT INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN GARCIA EASILY DEFEATING THE ALDERMAN RAY LOPEZ.

>> PARIS, THIS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A SIGN OF GARCIA'S STRENGTH OR WAS LOPEZ JUST A WEEK OR CAN YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE AT ALL.

GARCIA'S LONG HAS STRENGTHENED THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY.

HE'S GOT A BIG PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATION THAT HE'S BUILT OVER MANY, MANY YEARS.

HE'S GOT THAT MUSTACHE YOU'VE GOTTEN A RECOGNITION, BUT HE'S GOT STASH AND AND YOU JUST CAN'T BEAT THAT STASH.

SNOW.

THE STASH A PRETTY IS IS PRETTY TOUGH TO BUT NO, HE'S JUST LIKE DANNY DAVIS IS CONNECTED TO THAT WAS THE 7TH IN THE WEST SIDE.

YOU KNOW, HIS HISTORY GARCIA'S VERY CONNECTED TO.

>> THE SOUTH WEST SIDES AND CICERO AND LITTLE VILLAGE AND PILSEN AND YOU KNOW, RAY LOPEZ AND I DON'T REALLY THINK REALLY EVER STOOD MUCH OF A CHANCE THAT YOU MAYBE THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE HE IS A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT, A DEMOCRAT, HE'S CONSERVATIVE.

HE'S GONE.

FOX NEWS A LOT.

MAYBE THOUGHT THERE WAS SORT OF A LATENT.

I'M ANGRY HISPANIC VOTE THAT YOU KNOW, TOUGHER ON IMMIGRATION AND TOUGHER ON GUNS AND TOUGHER TO FIND CRIME AND MORE PRO COP BUT KNOW THAT CALCULATION THAN WORKOUT.

69 TO 31 IS SPEAKS FOR GARCIA.

AGAIN, LOPEZ NEEDS TO STASH NEXT I MEAN, I THINK THAT PART OF THIS COULD BE WHY THE FOLKS LIKE THIS RUN, HE CAN'T HE'S NOT GIVING ANYTHING UP BY DOING SO BECAUSE THERE ISN'T, YOU KNOW, AN ALDERMANIC ELECTION FOR MAYOR IN MEXICO, YOU SEE YOU CAN RUN YOU UP YOUR NAME RECOGNITION.

YOU GET OUT THERE.

YOU LET IT BE KNOWN THAT YOU HAVE THESE AMBITIONS.

IT CAN ALWAYS WORK OUT THAT WAY.

IT WORK AGAINST YOU.

COULD WORK AGAINST YOU BY SAYING, OH, LOOK AT HOW YOU WANT WORK, BUT IT COULD ALSO OFF.

CAN WORK AGAINST YOU WHEN YES, WHEN YOU WHEN YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE MAYOR'S RACE, BASICALLY JUMPED OUT PRETTY QUICKLY.

>> AND IN THIS RACE HE GOT WAS SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU RUN TOO MANY TIMES, YOU GET WALLOP.

DOESN'T WORK FOR.

QUESTION IS, IS IS RAY LOPEZ GOING TO BE TAGGED WITH THE PERENNIAL CANDIDATE LABEL?

YEAH, NOW AND I THINK THAT THAT CAN POSE POLITICAL PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE.

BUT THERE'S NO DOUBT HE'S IN A DISTINCT MINORITY ON THE CITY COUNCIL.

>> AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS DOES NOTHING BUT RAISE THAT PROFILE OF SOMEBODY WHO SORT FIGHTING AGAINST YOU KNOW, PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, WHICH DID NOT HAVE A GREAT NIGHT TONIGHT, AT LEAST NOT YET, BUT ALSO SCHOOL SCORED.

SOME KEY VICTORY IS QUICK QUESTION BEFORE WE HEAD BACK OVER TO NICK BLUMBERG OVER AT HEADQUARTERS FOR EILEEN O'NEILL.

BURKE HAVE YOU WANT TO MENTION THERE A COINCIDENCE HERE THAT BOTH THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S REES AND THAT BRINGS CHICAGO HOME BOTH SO CLOSE?

SO I DON'T THINK SO.

I THINK MANY OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THE BRING CHICAGO HOME PROPOSAL ALSO VOTED FOR CLAYTON HARRIS.

AND IF THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE WHO STARTED WANTED A CHANGE OR SEARCHERS, RETRENCHMENT OF SORT OF LIKE LET'S FIGURE OUT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS BEFORE SORT OF TAKING ON MORE.

I THINK YOU PROBABLY MORE LIKELY TO VOTE NO AND VOTE FOR EILEEN O'NEILL.

BURKE.

SO THE QUESTION THAT THEY'RE SO CLOSE MEANS THAT THIS IS REALLY SORT OF THAT SAME DIVIDED CITY AND IT MIGHT HAVE WORKED FOR BRANDON JOHNSON, BUT IT MAY NOT HAVE FOR TODAY.

ALL THAT SPOTLIGHT FOR TONIGHT.

GUYS, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

SO AS WE HEARD EARLIER, THOUGH, THE RACE FOR COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY HAS YET TO BE CALLED EILEEN O'NEILL.

BERG HAS A LEAD OVER CLAYTON HARRIS.

THE 3RD EARLIER TONIGHT AT THE STAGE OR CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS.

HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF THAT SPEECH.

>> THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR FACE AND MAKE WE WILL BE PATIENT AND WE WILL LET THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS PLAY OUT.

AND WE WILL BUILD A SAFER MORE JUST COOK COUNTY TOGETHER.

>> ALL RIGHT.

NOW WE CHECK BACK IN WITH REPORTER NICK BLUMBERG WHO IS LIVE AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE.

NICK.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

GRANT, AS WE JUST HEARD IN THAT SPEECH, EILEEN O'NEILL BURKE SAYING WE'RE GOING TO LET THIS PROCESS PLAY OUT NOTHING IS BEING DECLARED OR CONCEDE TONIGHT, BUT THAT THEY ARE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.

WE'RE HERE WITH ONE OF HER CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS, ILLINOIS COMPTROLLER SUSANA MENDOZA.

THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.

ARE YOU THE CANDIDATES SENSE OF CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM OUT FOR SURE?

I MEAN, I THINK THIS IS BEEN A GREAT NIGHT.

>> I THINK SHE DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB GIVING HER SPEECH AND IS A COMPLETE CLASS ACT, WHICH IS RIGHT.

YOU KNOW WHY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ENAMORED BY HER CANDIDACY.

AND I THINK EILEEN, AS PETS OUT THE THAT AND HOW LAND AND THAT CAME TOGETHER AND PUT TOGETHER THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR STATE ATTORNEY.

IT WOULD BE I OVER SUMMIT OF THE UNICORN.

AND IT'S VERY RARE THAT CHICAGOANS IN COOK COUNTY RESIDENTS WILL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE FOR REALLY THE ONE PERSON MY ENTIRE LIFETIME.

THAT HAS BEEN MOST QUALIFIED AND READY TO STEP IN AND LEAD AND A PROSECUTOR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY TRIAL APPELLATE JUDGE AND THEN SOMEONE WHO IS SO SELFLESS THAT SHE STEPS AWAY FROM A SURE TO TAKE A WAS AND FRANKLY, YOU LONG SHOT OF AN OPPORTUNITY.

HACKING, NOT RESPECT THAT.

AND I HOPE WHEN ALL OF THESE VOTES IN VERY LAST VOTE IS COUNTED, THAT VOTERS REWARD FOR HER.

>> DETERMINATION AND LEADING CHICAGO COOK COUNTY DO A BETTER IN TERMS OF HER MESSAGING FOR HOW SHE VIEWS THIS JOB THAT DIRECTION THAT SHE WANTS TO TAKE THE OFFICE.

AND AFTER 2 TERMS WITH STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DIFFERENCE MAKER WAS THERE ASSUMING HER LEAD IN THE BOAT'S HULL GO?

I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE FED THEY'RE FED UP WITH AND CITY IN A COUNTY THAT DOESN'T FEEL SAFE.

AND IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN A VICTIM OF CRIME AND THERE'S MASSIVE HIT, I'M DISAPPOINTED IN HIM THINKING THAT YOUR STATE ATTORNEY WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE FIRST AND FOREMOST, I THINK TIM'S ADVOCATE, IT'S NOT AND SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVE THE STATE ATTORNEY WHO CAN BALANCE IT CAN BALANCE TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS THAT ARE NECESSARY OUR SYSTEM.

THEY CAN ALSO BE HE JUST AND BE THERE, RIGHT?

YOU CAN DO ALL OF THESE BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY BRING SAFETY AND THE SENSE AND SEMBLANCE OF BACK OUR COMMUNITIES AND HAVE WON.

WITHOUT THAT THAT'S BEEN WE'VE GOT ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT.

ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE HEARD IN THIS RACE FROM EILEEN O'NEILL, BURKE THAT DON'T NECESSARILY OFTEN HERE IN THE STATES ATTORNEYS RACE WAS THE IDEA OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OF FORMING A CHOICE.

YOU YOU THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING BRIEFLY THAT THAT HELP BREAK THROUGH TO VOTERS?

I THINK IT'S CERTAINLY IMPORTANT TO MOST WOMEN WRITE AND AND I DO THINK REPRODUCTIVE RATE THAT WE HAVE TAKEN FOR GRANTED, THINGS THAT WE THOUGHT COULD NEVER HAPPEN.

LIKE ROE V WADE BEING OVERTURNED.

>> HAD HAPPENED AND IT HAPPENED AND ARE WATCHING FACT THAT SOME OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS HAD MORE RIGHTS WOMEN REPRODUCTIVE AGE.

HAVE TODAY.

AND THAT'S KIND OF CRAZY.

BUT IT IS A REALITY IN SO.

>> DON'T EVER THINK THAT THOSE RIGHTS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED.

CAN NEVER BE TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE THEY CAN.

AND I THINK THAT WHAT SHE'S SAYING IS SHE RECOGNIZES THAT AND WOMEN ARE SAYING THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT WELL.

>> ALL RIGHT, I CONTROL THE THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

THAT'S ALL FOR US FROM EILEEN O'NEILL.

BERKS ELECTION NIGHT PARTY.

BACK TO YOU IN THE STUDIO.

THANKS SO MUCH.

GOOD WORK OUT THERE.

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