Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wins preliminary, set to face Josh Kraft in November – Boston Herald
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu simply topped the ticket in Tuesday’s preliminary, and can transfer onto the November basic election, when she is going to face longtime philanthropist Josh Kraft, who was trailing her by roughly 40 factors quickly after polls closed.
Wu, the favored first-term progressive mayor, was to date forward of her three challengers that the race was referred to as for her by the Related Press earlier than 8:30 p.m. Polls closed at 8 p.m.
Early outcomes had been in keeping with an Emerson Faculty ballot launched final week that confirmed Kraft was behind Wu by 50 factors, with simply days to go earlier than the preliminary election.
As of 8:30 p.m. Wu had roughly 68 p.c of the vote. Kraft, a son of the billionaire New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, had roughly 28% of the vote. The Related Press referred to as the second-place for Kraft earlier than 9 p.m. He and Wu will face off in November.
The opposite two candidates, Robert Cappucci, a retired Boston Police officer, and group activist Domingos DaRosa, every had managed to safe lower than 4% of the vote.
Wu and Kraft had but to make it to their election evening events, an outside rally for Wu in Roslindale and an occasion on the Ironworkers Native 7 Corridor for Kraft in South Boston, by the point the race was referred to as.
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