told KUOW<\/a> last month.<\/p>\nThat money goes toward day care for Wilson\u2019s 2-year-old, which costs $2,200 per month, so she can focus on her campaign, she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
The crushing expenses of living in Seattle inspired her to run for office in the first place, said the mayoral hopeful, who moved to Seattle in her 20s with her now-husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband and I were just kind of juggling our kid back and forth \u2026 But then when I decided to run, we\u2019re like, we really need child care,\u201d Wilson told KUOW.<\/p>\n
Her parents\u2019 investment may pay off: Wilson, who focused on homelessness, taxing the rich and other progressive policies, is at the cusp of unseating the Democrat Harrell.<\/p>\n
He shot to a 10,000-vote head start on Election Day, but his early lead soon melted away as the tallies came in.<\/p>\n
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and challenger Katie Wilson during a climate forum on Oct. 16, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
Wilson\u2019s parents \u2014 both professors in New York state \u2014 have been sending her money to help with expenses. AP<\/p>\n
Around 1,700 ballots still need signature verification, and both candidates are scrambling to find those people and have finalized their votes, according to King 5.<\/p>\n
The would end in a drawn-out recount if one candidate were to win with less than 2,000 votes \u2014 an ever more likely outcome as the votes roll in.<\/p>\n
Wilson has also pitched free summer child care to Seattle voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho doesn\u2019t love summer in Seattle? Parents. \u2026 Every parent knows that finding childcare is difficult. But finding affordable child care is next to impossible,\u201d she said in an Instagram video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lefty Seattle mayoral challenger Katie Wilson is on track to win out over incumbent Bruce Harrell \u2014 thanks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,34358,3,111,111795,1839,21,19,22,20,25,194,24],"class_list":["post-286915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-mayors","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-progressives","tag-seattle","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}