Posted on 03/04/2023 7:07:57 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois sat comfortably in an office board room high above the Loop on Monday and halfheartedly batted away the notion that he was preparing a run for the White House.
The billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune may be seen by some Democrats as the “in case of emergency break glass” candidate, one of the few prominent politicians who could stand up a White House run at a moment’s notice. Although President Biden has said he intends to mount a campaign, that has not eased Democrats’ obvious worry: he might decide not to run for re-election at 81, and worry could turn to panic.
But while Mr. Pritzker declined to provide a yea or nay on whether he would run, he added that a last-minute swap of an understudy for Mr. Biden was “such an odd hypothetical if you ask me.”
“I think it assumes a lot of things about someone who’s 80 in this world today. No kidding, you know, 80 is a lot different today than it was in the ’80s,” he said with his signature aw-shucks wave.
Politicians hate hypotheticals, or say they do to dodge questions, but if Mr. Biden cannot or will not run, the Democratic Party would have 3.6 billion reasons — Forbes’s most recent estimate of Mr. Pritzker’s net worth — to turn to the Illinois governor.
Four months after winning a second term by 12.5 percentage points, Jay Robert Pritzker, 58, has maintained his political operation and his ambition. His influence and money reach far beyond state lines, and a string of progressive victories in the last year has raised his stature.
“He’s a billionaire who’s not afraid to spend his own money, and he’s very progressive, which is where the Democratic Party is today.”
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I suppose he’s done just about as well governing Illinois as he Biden has done governing the country...
I suppose he’s done just about as well governing Illinois as Biden has done governing the country...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois? I hate that guy. With him around I’ll never get the role of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in a future GOOD Dune movie.
What a clown. He should go ahead and run. It would be fun to see him crash and burn.
They’re gonna need a bigger White House..
“...progressive, which is where the Democratic Party is today.”
No, they are REGRESSIVE to about 200 BC. Lawless, no care for children, few codes of laws, stratified societies, wanton murder, high taxes...every social pathology under the sun.
Somebody actually thinks that fat gangster looking slob is presidential material? I don’t think it would be wise to have 2 worthless, corrupt RAT maggots in the White Hut in a row.
Even with Pritzker on it that’s a pretty thin presidential bench for the RATS.
J B Pritzker is more of a Chicago mob mafia puke than Chris Christie is and both of these criminals belong in prison, not only in politics.
Pritzger is disgustingly fat, at least in pictures online.
He might have a corner on fat voters.. There are quite a lot of them.
If MARXIST fat boy ran for anything in the future, he would have a heart attack. “Run, you fat Red bastard, Run”!!!
Worms gotta eat too!
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