Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid Tuesday, failing to garner enough votes to reach the threshold needed to head to a runoff. 

Lightfoot became the first Chicago mayor not to win re-election in 40 years. Crime appeared to play a major role in voters' decision to give her the boot as the city saw some of the highest crime rates during her tenure. 

The number of homicides in 2021 hit a 25-year-high reaching 797, according to the Chicago Police Department. 

Fox News' Judge Jeanine Pirro celebrated the news, saying Lightfoot's loss is a "win for the people of Chicago."

"This is a woman who didn't understand her constituents, who didn't understand that the first order of government is the safety of its people," she argued. "Her policies damaged Chicago politically, economically, sociologically."

Pirro continued, saying Lightfoot, as the city's first Black lesbian mayor, didn't take care of victims of color. 

"She could have done that. She has a lot of power, but her crime is up. What is it - murder rate 59%? And she just said that they cut back on the murder rates or something bizarre like that? Let her sing and dance away to her next job," she said.

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"She hasn't made anyone's life safer or better. Good riddance." 

Co-host Greg Gutfeld quipped he will miss Lightfoot and the joy she has brought him, covering all of her antics like dancing and singing TikTok karaoke. 

"She says she lost because she's a Black woman and that she's being held to a higher standard. And apparently that a higher standard is competence," he said. "She was a historical first. She was the first Black lesbian mayor of Chicago. Now she's another historical first. She's the worst mayor that Chicago's ever had."

Gutfeld argued the larger picture is that voters shouldn't elect someone based on the boxes they are able to check, like race and gender. "You owe them nothing," he said.

"I hope people are like, 'You know what? It doesn't matter what skin color they are, who they sleep with.' You know, if they're going to make your cities safer, vote for them."

Sirhan Sirhan, the man who shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy 55 years ago in Los Angeles, was denied parole on Wednesday by a panel in California. 

It marks the first time that Sirhan's case has been up for review after a different parole board recommended that he be released in 2021. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected that recommendation in January 2022, arguing that Sirhan still poses a threat to public safety. 

"Mr. Sirhan’s assassination of Senator Kennedy is among the most notorious crimes in American history," Newsom said at the time. "Mr. Sirhan killed Senator Kennedy during a dark season of political assassinations, just nine weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s murder and four and a half years after the murder of Senator Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy."

Sirhan, 78, assassinated Robert F. Kennedy at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. 

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RFK, a U.S. senator from New York who was in the midst of a presidential campaign, had just delivered a victory speech in California’s Democratic presidential primary. 

A judge initially sentenced Sirhan to death, but his sentence was commuted to life in 1972 when California briefly outlawed capital punishment. 

Sirhan's attorney filed a writ of habeas corpus last September, arguing that Gov. Newsom's denial of her client's parole was an "abuse of discretion."

A video of Sirhan was played at a news conference after that motion was filed, in which he apologized. 

"To transform this weight into something positive, I have dedicated my life to self-improvement, the mentoring of others in prison on how to live a peaceful life that revolves around nonviolence," Sirhan said last September. "By doing this, I ensure that no other person is victimized by my actions again and hopefully make an impact on others to follow."

Most of Kennedy's surviving children supported Newsom's rejection of Sirhan's release last year, but two of his sons – Douglas Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – have expressed support for his release. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.