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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

2023 is not a big election year, but there are still some state and local elections of significance.

To the most important are this spring in the coming weeks. On Tuesday, a handful of

mayoral candidate square office in Chicago's primary and incumbent Lori Lightfoot is in trouble.

Further north in Wisconsin, on April 4, raised to fill an open Supreme Court seat,

state Supreme Court. He gives Democrats a chance to reclaim a four or three majority for the first

time since 2005, and the implications go well beyond the Badger State. Plus, the Republican

National Committee says that to get on the debate stage in the next year and presidential debates,

the candidates must promise to endorse the ultimate winner of the party nomination. Is that a good

idea or a pipe dream? We'll tell you that. Welcome on Paul Gigo with Kim Strassel and Colin Levy,

the Eschemobile ones. Let's start with the Chicago mayor's race, Colin. You faded to live in Chicago

land. I guess it's a choice. I'm a former resident in Chicago, although many moons ago,

back when it was a city that worked, Mayor Lightfoot is in third place in the polls now behind

Paul Vales at former schools, Superintendent in the city, and Brandon Johnson, who's the Cook

County Commissioner, and is the favorite of the teachers unions. There are some other folks in the race.

So how much trouble is Mayor Lightfoot in? I think she's in real trouble, Paul, to be honest.

Paul Vales now has taken a fairly significant lead, and she's really struggling to defend her tenure,

because she's been in office now during some of the worst years that we've seen in Chicago.

Obviously, crime is way up. The economy is kind of hinky here and there. You've seen a lot of

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