Portland voters have elected Keith Wilson, a trucking company CEO and political outsider, to become the city’s 54th mayor. Partial returns as of 5 p.m. Wednesday showed Wilson leading Portland Commissioner Carmen Rubio 62% to 38% — a margin of more than 42,000 votes — after 19 preliminary rounds of vote counting and candidate elimination under the city’s first election using ranked-choice voting. Given the newsroom’s rough estimate that 100,000 ballots cast by city of Portland voters remain to be tallied, there is no plausible path for Rubio to overcome the dominating lead that Wilson built, an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive found. Wilson’s pitch to tackle homelessness, crime and livability — top concerns with Portland voters — came with a full-throated insistence they can be remedied with care and compassion. He made the audacious pledge to largely end unsheltered homelessness within a year the crux of his campaign. Read more at the link in our bio. 📹: hello__destiny #kei...