Pritzker ponders running for third term and his national ambitions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Pritzker said he still loves the job of governor, though he acknowledges "it's become harder," noting that with Trump, "the challenge is meaningful.
62% : That has allowed Pritzker to seek an outsize role in national Democratic politics in the early days of Trump 2.0.
59% : To Pritzker, Musk is "President Musk" and Musk's associates in his Department of Government Efficiency are "DOGE-bags.
42% : CHICAGO -- The day after Donald Trump won the presidency last November, two-term Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker issued a statement that said as much about his plans for the state's future as his own political future.
29% : "In 2017, I sought public office in large part because of the threat Donald Trump and his allies posed to Illinois," he wrote, citing his successful first bid for governor in 2018.
27% : Seeking to fill a vacuum within a party struggling to respond to Trump and his efforts to dismantle the federal government, Pritzker has offered a message that attempts to recapture middle-class voters who abandoned the party in the 2024 elections.
14% : Despite being pardoned by Trump, Blagojevich is ineligible to hold any public office in the state.

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