Congresswoman Robin Kelly is at the center of a behind-the-scenes Democratic Party power struggle with Governor JB Pritzker.
"Well, you know, people have the right to endorse who they want to endorse and be with who they want to endorse," Kelly said.
Pritzker is not just focusing on his own reelection, but also on endorsing and providing financial support to candidates running for spots on the Democratic Central Committee, which will be voting on a new party chair later this summer.On Thursday, Pritzker dodged questions about whether he's planning to run another candidate against Kelly.Illinois governor election results pit downstate Sen. Darren Bailey against Gov.
"I haven't thought about that at all," Pritzker said."I want us to make sure that the Democratic Party is organized in a way that we can raise money for state candidates and federal candidates. As you know, there are challenges with that having a federal office holder as the chair." "There is no question, we took care of that when I first got elected, with lawyers," Kelly said in response."So we are raising money and we have, you know, more money than a lot of states."
The political intrigue comes at a time when Kelly and Pritzker are working to help Chicago land the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and looking ahead to the November election."So we need to all get on board and make sure that we're supporting her because the work needs to be not about some intro-party intrigue, it's got to be to make sure that we're electing Democrats," Lightfoot said.
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