Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot took hits for being “tone-deaf” and was slammed as the “Marie Antoinette of America’s mayors” on Monday’s “Outnumbered,” where the panel dissected footage of her dancing in the streets of The Windy City at Sunday’s Lunar New Year parade amid startling crime surges.
“She’s pretty tone-deaf, but she knows, too, it’s going to be a Democratic winner [in Chicago’s mayoral primary] and she thinks she’ll be the one,” “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said.
“The only people left in Chicago, I think, are the Cubs. Besides that, everyone else is gone… She is in a situation where, by February 28th, she’s going to be in a primary unless someone gets 50%. They got until April, and then she has until April to prove that she’s the best option,” he added, pointing to numbers that show vacancies lining the city’s Magnificent Mile climbed to over 30%.
CHICAGO MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT SINGS TIKTOK KARAOKE AMID 37% INCREASE IN VIOLENT CRIME
“Fox & Friends Weekend” host Rachel Campos-Duffy slammed Lightfoot for ignoring skyrocketing crimeÂ
“My daughter lived in Chicago for many years. She lost two classmates to crime during the time that she was there,” she said.Â
Campos-Duffy pointed to the Hispanic population in Chicago as an example, citing reports of tamale vendors being robbed at gunpoint while selling their food.
“These are little old ladies who get up at three in the morning, make tamales to sell to the blue collar workers who work, probably all over the city for all the rich people,” she said. “You know what [Lightfoot’s] answer was? Her answer was they should go cashless. Really? You want to sell tamales with a credit card?”
LORI LIGHTFOOT BLASTED OVER CHICAGO POLICE SCANNER BLOCKING: ‘DOESN’T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON’
Campos-Duffy slammed the Chicago mayor for slashing police funding and labeled her the…
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