“I believe that voters see themselves [in me],” Brandon Johnson tells VF. “I’m a reflection of working people.”
was running late. It had been a hectic Saturday on the campaign trail, just over two weeks before the April runoff vote in Chicago’s mayoral election, and he was being whisked out of a Mexican restaurant in Little Village to his next stop: the headquarters of the Chicago Teachers Union, where the seeds of his political movement were planted more than a decade ago. But before he left, he had to squeeze in one more interview—this time with a puppet named Chip Chicago.
That “everyman” appeal has been key to Johnson’s rise. A 47-year-old Cook County commissioner with thick-rimmed glasses and a beard gone to white in the chin, Johnson entered the crowded race for City Hall last fall with the support of powerful progressive groups in the city.
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