Over the next couple of years, the late night comedy shows will become a stomping ground for 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls and on Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel helped kick start that process by welcoming Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to the show. Together the two would implicitly accuse Republicans of racism by claiming they “know full well” Abraham Lincoln would be a Democrat today and explicitly as Pritzker recalled his 2018 campaign message of “Everything we care about is under siege by a racist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic president of the United States."
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Later, Kimmel returned to Pritzker’s speech, “Well, let me ask you about something specific that you said in the speech, and I think this is the thing that got people fired up. You said, ‘It is time to fight everywhere and all at once.’ You called for mass protests. There are mass protests today. What does that mean, fight everywhere and all at once? What should we do?”
Pritzker began by falsely claiming, “I think everybody understands that, at this point, we've got an authoritarian in office. He's essentially tearing apart the things that really matter to working families across the United States, and nobody's stopping him. Congress is under the control of his party. They're all paying homage to him at all times. No one's willing to break with him, even though they're taking away health care from millions of people across the United States and threatening Social Security.”
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. Nick Kangadis
. steve malzberg
