
WASHINGTON — Brandon Johnson made the rounds in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, working both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue in his first visit as the incoming Chicago mayor.
We talked in the late afternoon, just after he left a White House meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and before he headed to the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill for a fundraiser hosted by the political arms of the American Federation of Teachers and the SEIU — the unions that bankrolled his mayoral run.