Katie Wilson, 43, a former union leader who has pledged to 'Trump-proof' the Democrat-led city in Washington state, holds a narrow lead in her primary showdown with incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell.
With the final results of the primary expected to take days to calibrate, Wilson holds 46.21 percent of the vote to Harrell's 44.85 percent. The final two in the race will face each other in November's general election. No other candidate broke five percent.
Wilson launched her campaign for Seattle Mayor in March, and held her announcement at one of the homelessness-ravaged city's shelters.
If elected, she has pledged to fight Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...'s crackdown on illegal immigration by refusing federal orders targeting im
She has also vowed to establish an 'Asylum Seeker Rapid Rehousing voucher program' that would provide
Wilson previously called to defund the Seattle Police Department, a policy that has seemingly not hurt her candidacy despite Seattle suffering through one of the worst crime waves in the nation in recent years.
The city's residents have a shocking one-in-129 chance of being a victim of a
Wilson appeared surprised on Wednesday as the primary results tilted her way, telling KOMO that 'we were not expecting to be ahead on the first drop, right?'