Boston Mayor Michelle Wu won the Boston nonpartisan mayoral primary with majority support, advancing to face New England Patriots heir Josh Kraft in the general election.
Wu pulled in more than 60% of the vote, while Kraft had around 29% support when the race was called for the pair. Robert Capucci and Domingos DaRosa had less than 6% of the vote combined.
The incumbent Wu is aiming for a second term in office and is popular among Boston voters. A recent Emerson College mayoral poll showed that nearly 3-in-4 voters held a favorable view of Wu.
Wu said earlier Tuesday that the Trump administration is targeting Boston because it “represents all that is good about our democracy.”
“We are proof of what’s possible when people come together, and we’re proof of everything that shows why they are wrong,” she said.
She’s received the backing of both of Massachusetts’s U.S. senators and is also popular within the party.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called her the “best mayor in America,” while Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called for voters to vote for her and said she’s a “national leader and a stalwart champion for Massachusetts.”
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Kraft is the son of Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner. He’s outspent Wu on the campaign trail but hasn’t garnered the same support. He feels Wu doesn’t have her finger on the pulse of the city.
“Everywhere we go, myself, our team, throughout the neighborhoods of this city — regardless of race, socioeconomics, ethnicity, language — we hear the same thing: People don’t feel listened to, people don’t feel connected to the mayor and the mayoral administration,” he said. “Some of the polls have a big margin, but let me tell you something: Polls don’t decide elections. People decide elections.”