Clinton Won’t Meet Embattled Mayor Emanuel in Chicago Visit
Bernie Sanders has made Clinton's ties to the mayor an issue ahead of the Illinois primary.
Jennifer Epstein
Bernie Sanders has tried to make the presidential primary vote in and around Chicago into a referendum on Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but Hillary Clinton won’t be giving him more ammunition when she visits the city on Monday.
The Democratic presidential candidate and the former Clinton and Obama White House aide aren’t expected to see each other while she’s in town, Emanuel’s office said Sunday. Clinton often meets with, or is introduced by, mayors or other elected officials who have endorsed her as she campaigns across the country.
Adam Collins, a spokesman for Emanuel, said the mayor’s “focus remains on the job voters hired him to do last year, create opportunities for people across the city and tackle the challenges Chicago faces.” While Emanuel and Clinton won’t be meeting because “their respective schedules [won't] make it possible,” Collins said, “the mayor's support for President Clinton and Secretary Clinton is well known.”
Clinton is set to speak to the Plumbers' Joint Apprenticeship Committee Local 130 in the Near West Side, a mile away from where protests broke out Friday on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus ahead of a Donald Trump rally that was ultimately canceled.
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