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."
Pritzker’s speech that has liberal pundits swooning took place in New Hampshire, which led Kimmel to quip that the only reason a politician visits New Hampshire is because they want to run for president. Eventually, Kimmel asked, “I know this is not an announcement that you would make now, but can I ask you this? Is—what is it, like, three years and eight months too far in advance even to be thinking about something like that?”
Before he gave the standard politician answer where he declared he does not know his future plans, Pritzker declared, “Listen, I'm governor of the great state of Illinois, the land of Lincoln, I might add. He would be a Democrat if he were alive today.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
