Cherelle Parker is heavily favored to win Tuesday’s election against Republican David Oh as the city's 100th mayor thanks to Philly’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate
With just days to go, the candidates are active.While campaigning in Overbrook on Saturday, Democratic mayoral nominee Cherelle Parker knocked on the door of a man who worked for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and whose wife worked for the city Office of Homeless Services.
Parker is heavily favored to win Tuesday’s election against Republican David Oh thanks to Philly’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate, and her conversations with voters have become focused on what she will do if she prevails and takes office in January as the city’s 100th mayor.The Jefferson employee was exactly the type of resident Parker is hoping will hear her message. She has long championed the interests of diverse “middle neighborhoods” — those that are neither impoverished nor wealthy.
As she left, she implored him to hang on a little longer, saying, “You haven’t given me a chance yet.” “When I started this, I said I was going to run a very different kind of race,” he posted on social media about a week ago. “One that would include those who had been left out and ignored. One City, one People. We need all of us to come together to turn this city around.”And both would make history if they won. Parker would be the first woman to become mayor, and Oh the first Asian American.
Politically, the candidates are both moderates within their own parties, and they agree on what the primary solution should be for the city’s public safety crisis: hiring more cops, and having them do a better job of building relationships with the communities they police. “I’m gonna be the fixer, the doer, the get-it-done Cherelle. That’s who I’ve always been,” Parker said at the time. “The city right now, it needs bold leadership.”
Additionally, unpredictability on the other side of the aisle made it seem like the door might be open for the GOP if a vulnerable Democratic nominee emerged. Parker’s campaign took in $497,000 from mid-September through Friday, according to campaign finance reports filed as of last week. That’s on top of the $2.2 million she raised during the primary, and the almost $900,000 she collected over the summer.
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