Tom Brady isn’t coming again, and neither is Josh Kraft.
Whoever satisfied the son of Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft that he might come wherever near unseating our Sanctuary Metropolis mayor needs to be compelled to take a motorbike lane to work in a blizzard.
Good luck to Kraft looking for a path to victory in Boston’s mayoral race now.
Incumbent Michelle Wu leveled him in each ward and virtually each precinct in Tuesday’s preliminary election, together with within the Franklin Park space the place Kraft has made Wu’s plan to construct a ladies’s skilled soccer stadium at White Stadium a serious challenge. Her margin of victory matched legend Tom Menino’s and Ray Flynn’s at their heights.
That’s not a path to victory in November. It’s a street to destroy.
The place does Kraft go to get his repute again, and the tens of millions he has invested in his marketing campaign? Kraft is an honest human being who has carried out good philanthropic work within the metropolis and Wu turned him into a brilliant villain.
And the place does New Steadiness’s Jim Davis go to get his $1 million again?
Whoever satisfied Davis to place his cash on Kraft’s tremendous PAC needs to be banned from politics.
Large query is now what?
The adoring columns touting Wu as a folks particular person have already begun. Everyone within the North Finish loves her? Uh-huh.
Say this for Wu: she has discovered a very good recreation of hardball.
Crushing Kraft by a 48-point margin wasn’t sufficient. She nonetheless needed to tie Trump to his nepo child neck as soon as extra and mock him for attempting to purchase the election.
“Tonight voters throughout the town left little doubt, in Boston, wins can’t be purchased,” she advised her cheering supporters on election evening. “You despatched a message to Josh Kraft, and to Donald Trump and to all of their enablers. Boston will not be on the market.”
Kraft says he’s staying within the race when actually he needs to be on the lookout for an exit technique.
“This marketing campaign has by no means been about chasing headlines or currying favor with the political chattering class,” he mentioned.
Clearly it hasn’t. Kraft might not take heed to recommendation however he ought to actually get again to his commendable work for the Boys and Women’ Membership. Even wealthy children may be redeemed.
Whether or not his political consultants have been fired or stop is an open query however one factor is for sure: They obtained out within the nick of time. Evacuating a constructing earlier than the roof caves in is all the time a good suggestion.
After Kraft and adviser Will Keyser agreed to a “mutual” departure, Kraft’s deficit went from 30 to 50 factors within the polls.
And when voters lastly weighed in on Tuesday, the 50-point margin mainly held.
What political marketing consultant goes to wish to work for Kraft now?
“Polls don’t resolve elections. Individuals resolve elections,” he mentioned.
Properly, Boston held an election on Tuesday and Kraft obtained slaughtered. You don’t want a ballot to see that the identical factor will occur in November, too.
