Author: Hudson Crozier
The Democratic Mayor of Pittsburgh Ed Gainy lost the Mayor’s basic election on Tuesday to the relatively moderate controller of Alleghatic Corey O’Connor, dealing a blow to the left flank of the Democratic Party.
Gainy, which He took office In January 2022, he recognized the race on Tuesday evening after the expected results showed O’Connor as a winner, According to to the Associated Press. Gainy focused on him campaign Around the priorities that included the opposition of Trump’s administration, employing more black people to the police and making the city only operate renewable energy until 2030.
“The loss is not final,” he said in his Gainy in his own Concession speech On Tuesday evening, before finding that leftist policy is not going anywhere. “You see, they know that a new coalition is growing.”
Thank you, Pittsburgh. We built this campaign with the inhabitants of this city, neighborhood according to the neighborhood.
I am proud that I am your democratic candidate for the mayor. I am ready to work and I am grateful that I have you with me when we take the next steps together. pic.twitter.com/cjpxnkw47
– Corey O’Connor (@coreyocnorpa) May 21, 2025
“We didn’t put a crack in a glass ceiling; we crashed it,” said Gainy.
The term mayor ends in January 2026. After the November election, in which O’Connor will be Run against According to AP Republican Tony Moreno, a retired police officer. The main victory of O’Connor almost guarantees that he will win the universal election in November.
Son of former mayor of Pittsburgh, O’Connor attacked His campaign website shows Gainya’s record on public security, expenses and other problems. O’Connor argued that Gainey led the city to the financial crisis and emphasized regular speed in the police department, which lost hundreds of officers and saw five different bosses in recent years, according to Pittsburgh Postazette.
O’Connor also said that key city vehicles, such as ambulances, are still falling apart and required to be replaced, said AP.
As campaign statements show, some of the most critical differences between the two candidates were related to law enforcement agencies. Gainya’s campaign reached that “he hired the first unarmed assistants in the city” to respond to unpunished situations usually intended for the police and that it recruits more social workers to support some police functions. Meanwhile O’Connor Pushed Employing a larger number of neighborhood police officers and police financing resources to better deal with crisis situations.
O’Connor raised three times more cash than Gainy before the election, he informed Post-Gazette.
“We built this campaign with the inhabitants of this city, neighborhood according to the neighborhood,” O’Connor Posted to X Tuesday evening. “I am proud that I am your democratic candidate for mayor. I am ready to get to work and I am grateful that I have you with me when we are taking the next steps forward, together.”
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday evening she brought victory For the extreme left as the District Prosecutor in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, he won his democratic basic race with a pretender, who adopted a difficult rhetoric of crime. Krasner’s main victory means that the leftist prosecutor will most likely win the third term in a strongly democratic city.
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Hudson Crozier is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Corey O’Connor” by Corey O’Connor.
