What will Mayor Brandon Johnson's playbook be against 'raggedy' Trump White House?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : She and other progressive Latino colleagues representing wards targeted by ICE last weekend praised Johnson's approach thus far.
53% : Over the past decade, the job description for the mayor of Chicago has included a new duty: responding to Donald Trump.
50% : "This is Trump without any guardrails, and I think that people have to recognize that.
49% : Moreover, Trump now has more experience in office and is unfettered by reelection pressures because he is term-limited.
49% : While remaining unequivocal in stating that Chicago's sanctuary city ordinance remains "the law of the land," Johnson often seeks to highlight a broader focus on "working people" in his answers on Trump.
45% : " Meanwhile, some moderate and conservative leaders in Chicago are imploring the mayor to assist the White House in arresting immigrants charged with or convicted of crimes in hopes of sparing Chicago's larger community of noncitizens living in the U.S. without legal authorization.
44% : " Of course, Democratic politicians have much to gain from confronting Trump, particularly in deep-blue Chicago.
43% : Illinois and Chicago laws prohibit local law enforcement from assisting federal immigration authorities.
40% : Anthony Beale said, "Hell no," when asked if Johnson's rhetoric on Trump was being well-received in his majority-Black ward on the Far South Side.
38% : " Outside the public spotlight, the mayor has focused on using his City Hall force to inform communities facing deportation threats of their rights and ensure Chicago police continue to not cooperate with ICE.
36% : Mayor Rahm Emanuel took a typically combative approach, kicking off his relationship with the White House by mocking Trump's fixation with the crowd size at his 2017 inauguration. Emanuel's successor, Lori Lightfoot, went with political theater when she sought to upstage Trump's new Chicago director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2019 by hastily calling a dueling news conference outside the agency's downtown office.
34% : " The next day, the mayor began an answer about Trump by noting "there are people who have not accepted the results of the Civil War" and deflected inquiries on whether he would testify in the GOP House probe by asking why Republicans won't instead hold a hearing on "how reparations can transform people's lives.
33% : He avoided holding any news conferences the first week Trump took over, and he did not make any advertised stops in Latino communities until his Wednesday media availability in the Puerto Rican enclave of Humboldt Park.
31% : "This has been a longtime political strategy to target Chicago, and I don't think that there's anything that any mayor or any elected official could do at this point from the local level to get Donald Trump to change course," the Avondale alderman said.
27% : But with Trump now animating all stripes of Democrats, Johnson seems to be already capitalizing on openings to position himself as a liberal foil to Trump -- and deflect from his own liabilities.
26% : " Lightfoot also personally passed out "Know Your Rights" flyers and walked 26th Street in Little Village, the heart of Chicago's Mexican immigrant community, when Trump threatened ICE raids during her first months in office.
25% : " In some ways, Johnson has been less visible in the opposition against Trump than prior Chicago mayors.
24% : Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, a Johnson ally, countered it was naive to believe Trump would show mercy to a city that's been a punching bag for conservatives.
21% : " At a news conference a day earlier, the mayor hedged his comments more and avoided personally attacking Trump, suggesting some degree of wariness over being too confrontational.

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