Chicago voters reject new tax hike – Mayor Brandon Johnson blames town's Trump supporters (video)

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Town of Chicago simply tried to lift taxes and failed. Town claimed it needed the extra income to handle the rising homeless downside.

Voters within the well-known blue metropolis overwhelmingly rejected the thought in a vote.

Mayor Brandon Johnson tried accountable the failure on town's Trump supporters. Will these be the identical Trump supporters who attacked Jussie Smollett?

Fox Information stories:

Chicago Mayor Johnson suggests Trump voters are accountable for the failure of town's tax enhance referendum

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared accountable Trump voters in his response to the failed referendum he supported.

On Tuesday, Chicago residents rejected the “Convey Chicago Residence” referendum, which had promised $100 million in new tax income to fight town's homelessness disaster by elevating taxes on big actual property purchases. In accordance with the most recent vote rely, voters rejected the tax proposal by greater than a 7-point margin, representing a distinction of greater than 22,000 voters.

Throughout a post-election press convention on Wednesday, Johnson cited the “38,000” Chicago residents who voted for former President Trump, saying there was a “good likelihood” they had been behind the referendum's failure.

“It's not even meaningless to me, I feel there have been 38,000 Republicans who voted for Donald Trump or one thing like that in Chicago,” Johnson mentioned. “If we're making an attempt to attract some conclusions, and also you all need some extra, , analytics that you simply need to discover, this may be one thing price taking a look at as a result of there's – I'd simply say there's an excellent likelihood That he has performed a component on this referendum.

Watch the video beneath:

Who does he assume he's fooling?

Possibly the folks of Chicago are lastly waking as much as what progressives have completed to their metropolis.

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