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in for carley shimkus. officials at cook county jail recruiting prisoners to vote illegally. here jackie ibanez. >> the nine-candidate field is likely to prevent one person from getting the 50 plus percent necessary to win. officials say we should have a clear winner this weekend. it is uphill battle for incumbent mayor lori lightfoot, accused of coercing inmates to vote for her. guards are recruiting prisoners to vote for lightfoot. reporter william jay kelly spoke to one inmate. >> i...

Utopia was possible or ignore the reality because, you know, climate? >> yes, there is not a lot of reality in many of these policies, so we rely in our grid for col coal, natural gas, bulk electricity does not come from renewables. if we had more renewables, there are times the wind doesnt blow or the sun doesnt shine. renewables will go down to almost zero at time because of weather conditions and what is there to keep the lights on? natural gas and coal. when we retire power plants too early ...

>> yeah. >> i think it wasnt taken the way they hoped it would be. >> look, i think the other challenge that the trump team faces here in trying to keep some momentum going from a speech that seemed to be generally well reserved is that there wasnt much talk about the future in that speech. we know that the winning recipe for politics, whether youre a democrat or republican, and tonys boss was good at this, too, is talk about the future. give people a sense you have a plan and vision for the fut...