{"id":65290,"date":"2026-02-03T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/illinois-gov-pritzker-donates-5m-to-super-pac-backing-lieutenant-governors-senate-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:56:29","slug":"illinois-gov-pritzker-donates-5m-to-super-pac-backing-lieutenant-governors-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/illinois-gov-pritzker-donates-5m-to-super-pac-backing-lieutenant-governors-senate-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Gov Pritzker donates $5M to super PAC backing lieutenant governor’s Senate campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker<\/a> has stepped in with significant financial support for a super PAC aiding the Senate campaign of his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, as she seeks to gain traction in next month\u2019s Democratic primary for an open seat.<\/p>\n

Pritzker donated $5 million in December to Illinois Future PAC, according to a campaign finance report posted on the Federal Election Commission website.<\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a> reported that contributions from Pritzker and his family members \u2013 including more than $1 million contributed by cousin Jennifer Pritzker \u2013 made up nearly the entirety of the super PAC\u2019s $6.3 million raised last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The primary elections<\/a> for the crowded Senate race are scheduled for March 17.<\/p>\n

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Stratton and Democratic Illinois Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly participated in a debate hosted by WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times, the University of Chicago\u2019s Institute of Politics and International House in late January.<\/p>\n

The trio discussed a range of topics including whether they would support Senate Minority Leader<\/a> Chuck Schumer if elected.<\/p>\n

Krishnamoorthi said he was undecided and would “hear his pitch.” “I haven\u2019t decided,” he told the moderators at the debate.<\/p>\n

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Kelly said her support would depend on who might run against Schumer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stratton, however, delivered a firm rejection, saying she has already made her position public.<\/p>\n

“No, and I’ve already said that I will not support Chuck Schumer as leader in the Senate, and I’m the only person on this stage that has said so,” she said.<\/p>\n

Stratton received Pritzker\u2019s endorsement in April as she campaigns to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin, who has said he will not seek a sixth term.<\/p>\n

NBC News reported that Krishnamoorthi, the leading Democratic candidate in the Senate race, has built a massive war chest, pouring roughly $20.5 million into television advertising<\/a> since July, according to data from AdImpact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has stepped in with significant financial support for a super PAC aiding the Senate campaign of his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, as she seeks to gain traction in next month\u2019s Democratic primary for an open seat. Pritzker donated $5 million in December to Illinois Future PAC, according to a campaign finance … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}