Chicago Voters Reject New Tax Hike – Mayor Brandon Johnson Blames Metropolis’s Trump Supporters (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

The town of Chicago simply tried and failed to lift taxes. The town claimed it needed the additional income to handle the rising homeless drawback.

Voters within the famously blue metropolis rejected the concept resoundingly in a vote.

Mayor Brandon Johnson tried responsible the failure on town’s Trump supporters. Would these be the identical Trump supporters who attacked Jussie Smollett?

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Chicago Mayor Johnson suggests Trump voters responsible for failure of metropolis’s tax hike referendum

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

On Tuesday, Chicago residents struck down the “Carry Chicago Dwelling” referendum that promised $100 million in new tax income to fight the homeless disaster within the metropolis by climbing the tax on heftier actual property purchases. Voters rejected the tax proposal by over a 7-point margin, representing a distinction of greater than 22,000 voters, based on the most recent votes counted.

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

“It’s additionally not misplaced on me, I feel there have been 38,000 Republicans that confirmed up and voted for Donald Trump, or one thing like that, in Chicago,” Johnson mentioned. “If we’re attempting to attract some conclusions, and also you all need another, you realize, analytics you may need to uncover, that may be one thing to look into as a result of there’s— I’ll simply say there’s an excellent probability that that performed an element on this referendum.

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Who does he suppose he’s fooling?

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