Heather Cherone:
Well, whatever the result is, it will be used as sort of one of the first examples of what could happen in the 2024 elections.
If Brandon Johnson wins, you're going to see progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders say, this is the way progressive candidates can win in a time of high crime and backlash from more conservative voters, not just those in the Republican Party, but also those in the Democratic Party.
If Paul Vallas wins, you will see people say that Joe Biden, if he's going to run for reelection, and then win a second term, will have to sort of take a more moderate approach to not only issues of policing and crime, but also sort of the so-called culture war issues, to tack to a more middle ground position.
Neither of those takes, I think, will be exactly right, because Chicago is an idiosyncratic city that sort of has its own issues. But that, I think, is how it will be read nationally, even though there are of course, other issues besides crime and violence, even though that's dominated motivating people to go to the polls tomorrow.
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