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Democrats around the state are publicly and privately praising Governor JB Pritzker’s announcement Tuesday he’s selected former State Representative and former Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell as his running mate next year.
With one month before petition circulation begins for the 2026 election, sources say Senate Republicans are honing in on two Democratic seats as potential pickup opportunities.

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Democrats around the state are publicly and privately praising Governor JB Pritzker’s announcement Tuesday he’s selected former State Representative and former Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell as his running mate next year.
With one month before petition circulation begins for the 2026 election, sources say Senate Republicans are honing in on two Democratic seats as potential pickup opportunities.
Governor JB Pritzker announced his campaign for a third term in office Thursday, citing his successes of his first six-and-a-half years in office without laying out priorities for a third term.
A third party poll of a potential Republican primary race between appointed Sen. Darby Hills (R-Barrington Hills) and Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills), shows a potential problem for the appointed incumbent.
Multiple Democratic sources tell The Illinoize Governor JB Pritzker will announce his campaign for a third term this Thursday.

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Opinion
As Governor JB Pritzker embarks on a campaign for a third term Thursday, he’s widely considered an odds-on favorite to become the first Governor to win a third full term since Jim Thompson nearly 40 years ago.
If you’re an optimist at heart, you may have gone into Thursday’s House Oversight & Reform Committee hoping for a real discussion about our immigration system and looking for ways to repair it.
As Republicans in Illinois, we too often fall victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeat. We get caught in a cycle of pessimism, quoting old losses instead of building new victories.
I was not paying any attention to Governor Pritzker’s COVID press briefings that had become a daily occurrence in mid-March of 2020.
One Illinois Democrat who didn’t peacock for the cameras after President Trump’s not-a-SOTU was Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-Springfield).
