Back in April, Illinois village. JB Pritzkar became a viral sensation after telling about a gathering of New Hampshire Democrats that the party was less “needed”Nothing political type“And more curious Anti-Maga Warrior.
On Sunday, a group of fugitive Texas state MPs gave Pritzkar a chance to invest (considerable) money, where he has his mouth.
In a bold declaration, which puts him in a direct struggle with Texas Gove Greg Abbott (R) and Attorney General Kane Paxon (R), Protezkar vowed to protect the breakway democratic MPs from the dangers of Abbut. Partisan lawBoth men bother their own national ambitions and will be happy to mislead the Governor of Illinois on the national stage, but Pritzkar is sure that he may beat them both.
He said, “We are going to do everything to save each of them,” he said Press conference In the weekend. “We know they are doing the right thing. We know they are following the law.”
Pritzkar’s swing in Abbott and Paxton is the first real world test of aggressive political theory that he started in New Hampshire four months ago. He is about to find out if it actually works.
The Governor’s strategy is not completely philanthropic. Most poles and Prediction market Rank it to the lower level of the 2028 President’s contender. On about 2 percent of support, he discovered a bit of billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and former professional wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. Despite enjoying a positive approval rating in Illinois, something outside the state could choose Pritjkar from a lineup. They need to be badly mediated by media that offers a primetime fight with abson and paxon.
He chose the right issue. Democratic voters are encouraged by extending a decade-one decade redistribution program to protect their delicate house majority in a biased plan of Republican. When GOP leaders in Florida and Missouri suggested May join Texas soon In the mid-decade redistribution, Democratic leaders, including the New York Gove Kathy Hochul (D), responded with dangers to conduct their own-cycle adjustments.
So far, Pritzker’s political tendency is paid. Democratic players, including Texas democrats And former democratic national committee chairman Jame harrison The governor was praised, a feeling was echoed by dozens of loans Star State State democratic MPs and left-blow political affected people.
Texas Democratic strategist Monic Alkala told me, “Every democratic elected officer in the country should pay attention.” “Democrats are hungry for fighters and Governor Pritzkar and Texas House Democrats are showing how it is done.”
The praise of other presidential post of 2028 is not paid attention to. No one is irritated with Pritzkar compared to California village Gavin Newsom (D). Newsom saw a performance with Abbott and Paxon as his own way Missfire of a podcast launch earlier this year. He had already responded to the danger of redistribution of Texas Congress maps of California In favor of Democrat. He also hosted something Wicked Texas MP Your own. So why did Pritzker steal the spotlight?
Newsom believes that Democratic voters want to return to Obama’s calm, academic center-right. H has spent most of the 2025 time Rebrand themselves As a kind of irreversible, in the form of an arbitrary, analysis. Instead of taking his mid-cycle redistracting fight directly from the media with a print-size stunt, Newsom demanded to bring himself into a position as a consensus idea among its fellow Democratic Governor.
For your credit, Newsom It seems that succeeded In that, but being the leader of an aristocracy, it cannot be as valuable as it is in a party where most of the Democratic voters see the elite of the party. Weak and ineffectiveNewsom is offering a professor to voters, at that moment they want to raise a brawler. Prithjkar’s primetime slugfest with Abbott and Paxton is designed to give up no doubt in the minds of voters that he is a broler.
It is also a practical fact that billionaire governor’s cash piles are more immediate help for Texas Democrats, as they are for the long -term game of Newsom. State Democrats denied “quorum bust” due to cost and logical challenges, until Pritzkar offered to organize finance and operation. Now they give the official press conference in front Pritzker’s campaign logoIf Pritzker wants to be seen as the party’s “Can-D” Democrat, it is a great way to start.
If he wants to reach the rare ranks of a serious president’s contender, Pritzkar still has a long climb. But the rescue of the Democrats of Texas’s surrounded Democrats suggests that he is serious about climbing.
Max Burns is an experienced Democratic strategist and founder of third degree strategies.
