Lori Lightfoot claims she 'misspoke' when telling voters who don't support her not to vote

Fox News ^ | 2/21/2023 | Landon Mion

[simpson96]

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, D, told South Side voters they should not vote at all if they do not vote to re-elect her, but she now insists that she misspoke during the heat of the moment.

During a campaign event over the weekend in Grand Crossing, the mayor said anyone from the South Side voting for "somebody not named Lightfoot is a vote for Chuy Garcia or Paul Vallas," referring to her challengers.

U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas are the other frontrunners in the election for Chicago mayor.

"If you want them controlling your fate and your destiny, then stay home," Lightfoot continued. "Then don’t vote."

But after casting her vote Monday at Northeastern Illinois University, Lightfoot told reporters she did not mean to suggest voters should sit out the election.

"If I said anything other than everybody everywhere needs to vote, then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally," she said. "But I’ve been very consistent all along saying everybody everywhere needs to step up, and they need to vote just as I said today."

(snip)

Another challenger, philanthropist Willie Wilson, said Lightfoot's words were "delusional, divisive, dangerous and disappointing."

Activist Ja’Mal Green, another mayoral candidate, wrote on Twitter that Lightfoot’s "desperation was showing."

"I just showed this to a bus load of new voters & the video made them more motivated than ever to vote against Lightfoot today," he wrote.

[simpson96]

Top 2 finishers go to a runoff election on April 4th.

She's polling third.

If she finishes third in the voting Feb. 28th, she's out.

[Conservat1]

New lefty dictionary :

I was wrong - I misspoke

[dfwgator]

She’ll win easily.

[Freedumb]

If the vote was clean she would finish 3rd or maybe even 4th behind Willie Wilson.

[JoJo354]

These days, Democrats can say anything and do “almost” anything and they become shoo-ins in elections. Amazing!

[csvset]

If she is bounced out of office, where could that hobgoblin go ? She has a face
made for radio. She doesn’t seem to be glib enough for a talk show though.

[iontheball]

What is this BS that after the fact you try to weasel out of what you plainly said by claiming you ‘mis-spoke’. Either you lied when you said it or you are lying now. If you don’t know what you are talking about, keep your big trap shut. You are accountable for what you say, so why not just be responsible enough to own up to your BS.

[lgjhn23]

“..If she is bounced out of office, where could that hobgoblin go?...”

I would politely suggest that the BeetleJuice demon quietly and quickly return back to hell from whence it came. Its big daddy is no longer pleased with it not meeting the weekly death quotas that were originally agreed upon. So now, big daddy has a special place reserved for it.

[know.your.why]

Would a penile reduction surgery help her maybe? Asking for a friend...

[Jamestown1630]

There seems to be a lot of ‘misspeaking’ being announced today...

[blackdog]

She’s admitting it doesn’t matter.

[muir_redwoods]

I believe her, after all her native language is Klingon.

[M1903A1]

The Klingons would never rule as poorly....

[SunkenCiv]

She's lying.

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[Vision]

She’s allowed to be a hatemonger, you see.

[rllngrk33]

She’s too ugly to be a Klingon.

[frank ballenger]

You’re right.

The bar is quite low for Dems like her.

As in on the ground.

[TLI]

” then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally”

No, it did not misspeak.

It said exactly what it believes.

.

[frank ballenger]

RE: Too ugly to be a Klingon.

https://tenor.com/view/klingon-rage-anger-star-trek-smile-gif-13367850

[digger48]

But,she’ll fit right in in the Biden administration