CHICAGO, IL — In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Governor JB Pritzker joined Kristen Welker to discuss what’s at stake in the midterm elections and how voters are showing up for Democratic candidates across the country.
While Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are attacking people’s rights and raising costs, Gov. Pritzker is working every day to deliver for Illinois working families and backing Democratic leaders who will join him in this fight against corruption.
Read excerpts below:
On surging candidates like Gina Hinojosa, Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Scott Colom:
“You can see that Gina Hinojosa is running a great campaign, and she’s running against someone that, frankly, people are tired of. Greg Abbott has been doing terrible things for middle-class and working-class people in his state. Gina Hinojosa is promising to lift them up and to stand against the policies that are brought on them by, well, Elon Musk, who’s trying to buy that election for Greg Abbott. And then, look at Georgia, by the way, Keisha Lance Bottoms is ahead by a point, I think, in the latest polls, and it looks like she’s going to do great. They both got top-of-the-ticket Senate candidates who are outperforming. And then, look at Kansas, Nebraska. You’re even seeing Scott Colom in Mississippi running tied. Mississippi, for goodness sakes! So, I think that Democrats are going to do great all across the country.”
On Trump’s attempts to rig the midterm elections:
“Donald Trump is trying to rig these elections, and if he’s able to do so, then you are going to see Republican majorities, which just follow Donald Trump’s lead no matter what he says, making sure that Democrats really don’t have a chance in so many places across the country. It is Donald Trump that has tried to redistrict all over the country, and we’ve had to push back. Look at what happened in Texas. Look at how California had to respond. Indiana almost redistricted. We threatened in Illinois that we would if they did. You’re seeing Maryland having to go do this because Missouri and other states are on the verge of doing it. This is really troubling, and it shouldn’t be that the president of the United States or that one political party is trying to rig the elections. That’s what I’m concerned about. So that’s why everybody’s got to get out and vote. And I do see that people really are. The early voting is just off the charts.”
On the need for hearings to uncover Trump’s corruption:
“There need to be hearings because there’s so much corruption. The corruption is even at a higher level than the, you know, the costs and cruelty that Donald Trump is bringing… The hearings will uncover things, and then some decisions will have to get made about that. But the American public doesn’t know the extent of the corruption. I think many of us paying very close attention do. But the American public needs to see what the corruption is, so that the Congress can pass laws and possibly even an amendment to the Constitution that limits the, well, I would just call it, the massive, massive profiteering that the President of the United States is able to do and is doing now with his family and his close friends.”
Full interview is available here.
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