Josh Kraft, son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, has advanced in Tuesday's preliminary election for Boston mayor and will face incumbent Michelle Wu in the fall.
Kraft injected millions of his own personal money into the campaign and set records for spending in a Boston mayoral preliminary election. Wu and Kraft bested two other candidates in the preliminary election: military and former school district committee member Robert Cappucci and community activist Domingos Darosa.
Wu, the city's first Asian and female leader, has been bolstered in part by her defense of the city against attacks from the Trump administration. Members of the administration, often led by President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, have accused the city of not doing enough to crackdown on illegal immigration an