Ram Emmanuel, a former mayor of Chicago, the last of which is the American ambassador to Japan, does not rule out another presentation to the Upper City employees or even seek Illinois Governor, but he emphasized both the city and the Democratic Party, in which it was a pioneering voice for a long time.
Emmanuel, who was a mayor from 2011 to 2019 after spent two years as head of employees to President Barack Obama, said on Monday that the city will remain his home and that he wanted to “spend time to think about what I will do.” But he said he hoped to “be a tool for city growth and state growth.”
Speaking to the Economic Club in Chicago in the arts hall in the city center, packed with more than 600 people, Emmanuel gave his response to the issue of whether he would try to return to a mayor in 2027, amid a widespread general rejection of the term mayor of Brandon Johnson on a large scale.
“I have said that before. I will say it again. Emmanuel told the supervisor, Chris Jones, the editor -in -chief of Chicago Tribune, did not finish the public service and I hope that the public service will not be done with me.” The question received a strong applause from an audience representing the city's business community, who was always a strong supporter of Emmanuel while he was a mayor.
Motivated by Jones that Emmanuel did not say, “No” to run again for the mayor's president, Emmanuel answered, “It is not yes, too.”
Emmanuel said that the same answer is mainly applied to whether he would ask for the democratic nomination of the ruler next year if the ruler of Democrats chose JB Pritzker not to election. But Emmanuel added, “JB was a great ruler. If he was seeking to be re -elected, I will prepare it 100 %.” Pritzker did not announce his intentions for 2026.
In the past, Emmanuel, funded by Clinton, was well elected by the White House and then a member of Congress on the northwestern side, and was well elected as mayor in 2011 by 55 % of the votes. But he was forced to run the surface four years before the current deputy of the United States, Jesus “Choi”, was defeated by Garcia with 56 % of the votes.
Emmanuel's popularity suffered from successes from his move to the closure of 50 public schools in the black and Latin neighborhoods mostly due to the decrease in records, the increase in fire with firearms, and in the end, it was delayed for a year in launching a video of the 2014 deadly police clip of the collision in Lacan McDonald, a 17 -year -old black man who was fired 16 times. White officer Jason van Dyck was later convicted of second -class death at McDonald's death.
He was always seen at the national level by the oldest Democrats as a political landmark, especially after his term as head of the Democratic Congress campaign when Democrats occupied 30 seats in 2006, frank and arduous shipping and Imanuel often always carried an ideology in the legs in the middle and that increased the brishes of democracy that moved the party more advanced.
Since his return from Japan in January, he became a commentary of CNN and has appeared on TV and Podcasts. During those manifestations, he claimed that the party and heads of democratic municipalities in major cities have focused too much on “waking up” the ideology of personal identity at the expense of larger issues than the working class such as education and the ability to bear the costs of housing and health care. He said that all of them contributed to the loss of Kamal Harris to President Donald Trump in 2024.
Emmanuel said that Trump and his supporters “make America great again” want the Democrats to focus on “wake up discussion of culture” because you “miss everything that happens on the kitchen table” and “data is quite clear that people believe that this is all that we care about.”
But Emmanuel said it was a “wrong designation” to believe that there were elections that caused the rejection of Democratic voters last year. Instead, he said, it is a political process that has been shown over the past thirty years.
“Politics is the addition, not the offering and we are really well offering, well,” he said. He said that seeing the realization of the American dream “represented in owning a house, and providing your child's education and retirement” “has become unknown, and cannot be tolerated. For the Democratic Party, this is unacceptable that the American dream is only permitted for people who exceed $ 300,000 a year. This is a mistake.”
At the same time, Emmanuel said that the states and government restrictions that were implemented during the epidemic put the “institution's coat” on the Democrats.
Saying: “I have closed schools, I have closed the places of worship for a longer period than they should be,” Emmanuel said, “We have penetrated with you. There is nothing to work democratically or economically to give people confidence in the institution.”
He said that the restrictions imposed on the classroom “basically and globally, imposed a generation on failure, and not only in mathematics in the eighth grade and reading in the eighth grade.” “So we have to improve it, not just to compensate for what happened in Covid, to compensate so that they have a chance.”
In the end, Emmanuel said, “Over the past thirty years, both the political and economic system, and we are all part of it, I am part of it, we have failed in the American people, and they are angry. And they are guessing what? They are right to urinate.”
As for the future of Chicago, there was no mention of Johnson, who is scheduled to be in the Capitol Hill on Wednesday to answer questions about the law of welcoming the city of the city against Republican criticism.
Instead, Emmanuel told the audience: “We have cut our work for us, and everything on us. We have to work.”
He said: “We have great strengths, and we must continue to build on these strengths to remain a global city, in your cultural and cultural institutions, your academic institutions, your global headquarters and your companies in the workforce that has the ability to compete in the global arena.” “So you should invest in it.”
