Astead Herndon

I want to also ask about move on from immigration and talk about taxes.

You've spent 58 million of your own money trying to pass a graduated income tax in 2020 that voters rejected 55 to 45.

I know you're in favor of a wealth tax nationally.

This gets some pub because, you know, you yourself are someone who would fall under said wealth tax.

Tell me like how you kind of tell me how you kind of came to supporting an idea of something that would cost you money.

So is it about raising revenue?

Is it ideological, like that you think there's like a kind of moral or kind of progressive purpose for, you know, like that we need to kind of income redistribute?

Like where were you always someone who was supportive of a wealth tax?

Like tell me about your kind of journey on that question.

I grew up in a household where we were- There's a lot of Democrats, particularly wealthy ones, who don't believe in something like a wealth tax.

You've been traveling to New Hampshire.

Also, you all are, the state has pushed to move Illinois up in the Democratic primary.

I recently read James Carville publicly backed you for president in 2028.

I know you're immediately running for a third term for Illinois governor, but I would not be a journalist if I just directly asked you.

Are you someone who we should be thinking about as a 2028 presidential candidate?

Days after the 2024 election, you gave a speech where you essentially said Democrats need to fight harder.

And at the DNC, your speech was also one that I think was one of the more direct ones.

I wanted to know, like, why you think it's important to reflect that sense of urgency.

Why is it for you more important to be kind of standing in direct opposition rather than what seems like some Democrats who are doing more reaching out to their side?

But those speeches, I mean, DNC speech, the one after 2024, it sounded like, you know, Dems fight back.