The Hill News

He’s right here in Chicago â€" in the newspapers every day, his commercials on the air â€" leaving in the gray slush, so far, his five serious rivals in the race to become Chicago’s next mayor.

The opponent running closest to Rahm, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun â€" he’s at 39 percent in the latest poll; she’s second at 12 â€" was the first to argue that by leaving the White House on Oct. 1, a month before the midterm election in which the Republicans gained 63 seats, Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, “cut and run” and left his boss “holding the bag.”

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