WASHINGTON - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft, son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, will both advance to the November general election in the race to be Massachusetts city’s mayor after winning the Sept. 9 preliminary.
Wu and Kraft, both Democrats, beat Robert Cappucci, a retired Boston police officer, and Domingos DaRosa, a community activist and former Pop Warner football coach. Municipal races in Boston are nonpartisan and candidates appear on the same ballot no matter what party they are affiliated with.
Wu, 40, was elected as the mayor of Boston in 2021, becoming the first woman and first Asian American to serve in the position. During her term, she signed an ordinance to divest millions in city investments from companies that benefit from fossil fuels, announced $50 million to improve apartments in the neighborhood Jamaica Plain and helped expand access to Boston's pre-kindergarten program, according to news reports.
She has also gone head to head with the Trump administration. The Justice Department on Sept. 4 filed a lawsuit against the city’s sanctuary city policy, which limits how much local police cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Wu has refused to drop the policy, and a Sept. 5 Emerson College poll found that 67% of voters approve of her decision.
