Lightfoot has been telegraphing for some time that she wasn’t going to back Sanders or Warren in the Democratic presidential race: In January the mayor told the Sun-Times that neither Sanders nor Warren, who exited the race earlier this week, had courted her endorsement: "They haven’t reached out. They’ve been to Chicago. They were very supportive of the Chicago Teachers Union strike but didn’t feel it was necessary to talk to the new black LGBTQ mayor.”