Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker issued a stark informing to President-elect Trump pursuing his landmark victory, promising that if anyone tries to "come for my people," they volition person to "come done me."
"People person often said that I’m a blessed warrior, and I’ve ever taken earnestly my relation arsenic a blessed warrior connected behalf of this state," Pritzker said successful a quality league Thursday. "Even today, erstwhile I’m struggling with galore of the hard questions this election poses, my optimism for the aboriginal remains undiminished."
"To anyone who intends to travel instrumentality distant the state and accidental and dignity of Illinoisans: I would punctual you that a blessed warrior is inactive a warrior," helium said. "You travel for my people, you travel done me."
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker held a quality league Thursday to sermon the aftermath of the 2024 statesmanlike election, issuing a informing that if anyone tries to "come for my people," they volition person to "come done me." (Governor JB Pritzker via X)
Pritzker's words of informing came aft helium promised to support residents from Trump's "backward" agenda.
"Over the years ahead, we'll bash much than conscionable support against imaginable reversion to an docket that threatens to instrumentality america backwards," helium said. "We volition proceed to beforehand a positive, productive and inclusive docket of our own."
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"Despite his threats to wellness attraction sum and acquisition accidental and a just minimum wage, Illinois volition proceed to put successful the well-being and prosperity of all our people."
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker astatine a quality league hosted by Biden-Harris 2024 National Advisory Board members successful Des Moines, Iowa. (Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Illinois has maintained immoderate of the strongest termination protection laws nether Pritzker, launching the Midwest authorities to go a harmless haven for women seeking abortions.
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