With 100 days to go before the 2026 local elections, Huang Shih-chieh, the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for Taoyuan mayor, went on the offensive, criticising incumbent mayor Chang San-cheng for three years without achievements — bad news for the Chang camp, and a new option for Taoyuan residents hoping for change.

• Huang held a 100-day countdown press conference at his southern district campaign headquarters, built around the slogan "Heart Taoyuan, Get Moving."
• His main lines of attack were that TSMC is not coming to Taoyuan and that National Tsing Hua University's hospital has also been confirmed as not going ahead, costing residents a large number of job opportunities.
• Transport was singled out as the most painful problem, with commuters travelling to Taipei for work spending a full hour just queuing for buses.
• Infant care places can never keep up with demand, leaving young parents without time for their families.
• On healthcare policy, Huang said the municipal hospital is nothing more than an idea on paper, and that the groundwork laid by the previous administration in bringing in a national university to establish a hospital has been squandered.

Outlook: With reports that TSMC may return to set up in the third phase of the Longtan Science Park, whether Taoyuan can retain that investment will become the central battleground of the campaign over the next hundred days.