Dan Pfeiffer

On Friday's podcast, I talked to Juliana Stratton, who's the lieutenant governor of Illinois, who just became the nominee to replace Dick Durbin in the Senate in Illinois.

There you go.

Yes.

She is going to be.

She would not when I talked to her.

Yes.

I kept saying when I see you in the Senate, she kept wanting to point out to me that she saw an election together, which is what hurt she's supposed to say that.

As I said to her, if she's not in the Senate, things have gone horribly, horribly wrong for the Democrats.

And that was a primary that didn't get a ton of attention.

It also, like Texas, didn't fit exactly into some of the categories I'm talking about because you had two younger candidates, both relatively establishment figures, although there were some ideological differences.

But one interesting thing from that race is that Julianna Stratton ran what I think might end up being the most interesting ad of the cycle.

I'm going to play that ad for you right now.

For those who are not watching on YouTube, the last fuck Trump comes from Senator Tammy Duckworth.

And the last vote Giuliana comes from Governor J.B.

Pritzker, who endorsed his lieutenant governor.

What do you think of the ad?

That's kind of her aura is fuck Trump.

Yeah.

A good friend of ours who lives in Illinois and is a big Juliana Stratton fan texted me the ad when it first came out to get a personal Political Actors React take on it.

And I think this person was uncomfortable with the ad.