Chicago – The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, gathered most of the Democratic Delegation of the State Congress at the University of Illinois at the Chicago Hospital on Friday to Lie In marked terms, the damage that would be presented to vulnerable populations if the administration of President Donald Trump falls to the Medicaid funds.
“Red alert, all,” said Pritzker. “It’s time to wake up. Go out. Do something. “
On the way, he called billionaire Elon Musk “President Musk”, argued that public opinion was quickly changing against the Trump administration agenda and gave a telephone number of the Congress, urging people to tell their representatives the impact of the president’s new policies.
Early in the day, Pritzker appeared in “The View” in a segment that was recorded on Thursday. The host Joy Behar introduced the governor, who is widely thought of having presidential aspirations, as a “Fire Brand” Democrat.
“Everything he has done has been demolishing constitutional democracy and that is what happened in Nazi Germany,” Pritzker said about Trump in the program.
Pritzker’s ubiquity occurs at a time when Democrats nationwide run into their balance. In a climate of information dominated by President Donald Trump and Musk, Pritzker is trying to step forward. as a main opposition voice.
Only this week, the governor traveled to Washington, DC, to press for federal funds for Illinois, delivered comments to the democracy forward’s prodemocratic group and appeared in the media that include CNN, MSNBC and in multiple podcasts.
The reference of Nazi Germany in “the view” echoed The state’s state speech last week, which National Attention obtained.
“My oath is to the constitution of our State and our country. We have no kings in the United States, and I do not intend to bend the knee to one. I am not talking in service to my ambitions, but in deference to my obligations, ”said Pritzker in the State Capitol in Springfield. “If you think I am reacting and playing the alarm too soon, consider this: it took the Nazis for a month, three weeks, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.”
Pritzker has long enjoyed playing A role of attacks against Trump. Last year, he sank millions of dollars of his own money in the state efforts of the battlefield to protect the rights of abortion.
This year, he has trolled the president In large and small ways. Has issued warnings against authoritarianism and Threats to democracy and accused Musk and Trump to try to steal private data from Americans. In January, Pritzker announced a new policy that prohibits any person linked to the attack of January 6, 2021 to the Capitol of becoming a state employee. After Trump assumed the position and renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, Pritzker joked that he would rename the Michigan lake to the “Lake Illinois.”
Pritzker is looking for Fill a void in a Democratic Party that suffered a devastating blow in November, losing all the battlefield states against Trump. Meanwhile, The questions are agitated about Pritzker Following political steps. On Friday, he said he had not yet made a decision on whether he would look for a third term as governor next year. The billionaire has already courted the party to hold a successful democratic national convention in Chicago in 2024.
“JB Pritzker has demonstrated a natural disposition to face face to face with the White House,” said Jaimey Sexton, a Democratic strategist based in Chicago. “He is comfortable for him to face face to face, with facts and without bravery.”
“And he will do it with a smile on his face because he is the affable billionaire,” Sexton continued.
Pritzker’s attacks against Trump have also attracted Republican wrath, even people like Karl Rove, who called him “exaggerated” in Fox News after Pritzker’s comments by comparing the actions of the Trump administration with Nazi Germany. Trump has also personally attacked Pritzker in the past.
Pritzker is also of Ukrainian descent, and at the end of his event in Chicago, he immediately published a rebuke of Trump in X: “The president of Trump, the enamel of Vladimir Putin and Russia, is shameful and dangerous. Illinois is with Ukraine, and so should the White House.”
When asked Friday how the governor can reach the public when Trump has successfully dominated with messages that finally won the voters in November, Pritzker pointed to the public and pointed out the response to the first days of the Trump administration.
“The message is not something we are inventing and selling there. It’s not a campaign, ”said Pritzker. “There is anger out there.”
“There has been a huge change. A great change from the beginning of this administration only 39 days ago, ”Pritzker continued. “A big change in people who demand that Donald Trump do what he said would do during his campaign and people understanding that he is not doing that, and we have to stop it.”
