Rahm Emanuel's mayoral record 'disqualifying' for a possible presidential contender, Johnson says

Brandon Johnson calls Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral record ‘disqualifying’ for a possible presidential contender – Chicago Sun-Times

“I have very deep concerns about the former mayor of the city of Chicago. What he did in Chicago — from school closures to privatization to austere budgets,” Johnson said during a radio broadcast before a live audience. Johnson talks often about having “taken an arrest” while protesting Emanuel’s decision to close Dyett High School.

Rahm Emanuel's mayoral record 'disqualifying' for a possible presidential contender, Johnson says

Withholding of Laquan McDonald shooting video, mass closing of Chicago public schools during Emanuel administration cited by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral record ‘disqualifying’ for a possible presidential contender, Johnson says

As former Mayor Rahm Emanuel revs up for a 2028 presidential bid, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday described Emanuel’s eight years as mayor as “disqualifying.” Johnson did not identify Emanuel by name when he talked about the one Democrat in the crowded field of possible presidential contenders whom he would like to, as he put it, “x-out.” But there was no doubt about whose potential presidential campaign Johnson was attacking, even before Eman…