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(NAN News Today) Today, March 5 is super Tuesday for 2024 US primary election, there will be ballot results for over 15 states on US president and congress district voting.

NAN News editorial group participated in Illinois 11th district congressman primary vote, including attended primary debate, attended their election camping events, and spoke with them on their election propose and goals, and conclude , that like Chicago Tribune’s endorsements on February 23, NAN News now endorse Democratic congressman Bill Foster for Democrats primary and Kent Mercado Republican primary.

11th congress district 3 primary candidate, Dr. Kent Mercado(Bartlett), Jerry Evans (Warrenville) and Susan Hathaway, we think business man Jerry has less experience and vision for his overall background , business women Susan didn’t show strong vision during debate on some key debate topics.

Compare to other 2 runners, Dr Kent Mercado has enriched background to be a doctor , attorney and businessman, and he kas more broad vision on most topics. During camping he showed as a nice listener, respect others, actively involved in communities, his response during debate is well balance, and compromise, so Dr Mercado is better suited for congressman role, so was endorsed.

NAN News editorial group did survey and participated in camping rally during 2016 and 2020 US president election, and for 2024 president primary election , since President Joe Biden is only nominee on Democratic primary, Biden will be endorsed. For Republican GOP nominee, since president Trump won most of state on 2024 GOP primary, so we will endorse Donald Trump .

(NAN News Chicago Election report, by Mark Su, March 22, 2023)

Chicago 11th ward alderman election runoff rival turn to critical phase with early voting started this Monday . The candidate Nicole Lee, and Anthony Ciarvino, both showed on several election events since last week.

The two candidates Nicole Lee and Anthony Ciarvino both eager to win April 4 runoff poll, voters, especially from Bridgeport district , and Chinese communities are even more expect this runoff results of the election of the 11th District .

On March 18, the Chicago Coalition for Better Chinese American Community sponsor 11 ward alderman candidate forum in Chicago Chinatown. Both candidates attended the forum and showed their opinions on public. The forum organizer raised seven questions regarding 11th ward alderman election, each candidate has 90 seconds to answer each question.

The seven question include how to solve district safety issue, how to help residents for housing and renting due to tax increase, how to coordinate with Chicago mayor candidate Paul Vallas since both of them support Vallas as Chicago mayor. During the forum, Anthony aggressively comments on Nicole’s speech, and Nicole Lee defense herself during question answering.

In March 21 evening , a group Bridgeport people organized another 11 ward alderman runoff debate, which maybe the last public election event for April 4 runoff. The debate was held at famous Zhou Brothers Building on 35th Street in the Bridgeport District. Over 100 people attend debate, which most of them are Bridgeport citizen , majority of them are white, only small mount of Chinese attended debate, with over 50 percent citizens are Chinese in Bridgeport district, how many Chinese voters will participate in poll in April 4 is hard to foreseen and how many Chinese voters will vote for Chinese candidate Nicole Lee also is hard to predicate.

Election ads on Bridgeport district
The Tuesday evening’s debate, moderator asked two candidates near 10 questions, and each candidate has 90 seconds to answer each question. Both candidate gave clear answer for each question, and audience looks like very satisfy with candidate’s answer to each question, this make it hard to show significant difference between two candidates, and maybe make voter hard to make decision to vote which candidate.

【北美网2023年3月8日讯，编辑Mark Su】

在2月28日芝加哥选举投票之后，芝加哥市长选举9个候选人分出了前两名在4月4日举行二次投票决定市长当选人。在大众的期待中，3月8日出现了里程碑式的进展。

当天上午10点多，在本次市长选举得票近5万多票的市长候选人WIllie Wilson在会议中心宣布，他决定背书（endorse）Paul Vallas为市长候选人。他说，在2月28日投票后，他和自己的团队分别与两个Runoff的市长候选人Johnson Brandon和Paul Vallas见面沟通，了解了他们的选举纲领，同时他还和许多部门领导人交换了意见，最后还在社交媒体上征求了大众的意见，最后决定支持Vallas.

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Wislon说，Vallas是目前能够团结芝加哥白人和黑人的最好候选人，他支持警察的政策对解决目前芝加哥最头疼的治安问题也至关重要。他和Vallas有多年的交往，在这次市长选举中有许多共同点政见。他还批评Brandon与教师工会的关系。

于此同时Brandon在当天也得到另外一个重要工会Service Employees International Union Local国际工会组织的支持，该工会成员来自政府部门工作人员，医疗系统工作人员等。

在两个候选人的激烈较量中，Valllas努力争取黑人选票的支持，他已经得到前伊利诺州州务卿Jesse White的支持，与此同时Brandon得到库克郡总裁Toni的支持。

按照2月28日的投票结果，Vallas得到34%的票，加上Wilson6%选票，现在已经有40%选票，再获得10%选票，就能超过50%取得胜利。在2019年市长选举中Wilson 背书了Lori击败了库克郡总裁Toni， 取得市长选举胜利，这次Wilson背书的Vallas能否再次像Lori取得胜利，还难于预测，因为另外一个候选人Brandon得到几个大工会的支持，那些选票不可轻视。

如果现任市长罗拉能够看在2019年Wilson帮助她选举的面子上，也支持Vallas， 那Vallas必胜无疑。而得票多的另外一个候选人Jesús Chuy可能会与工会联盟支持Brandon,因为 Jesús Chuy 过去选举一直靠工会支持才取得胜利。

请在下面选择中选出你的意见，你的见解非常重要，谢谢支持 ！

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