Gov. JB Pritzker

I love our nation.

I mean, I know we are led by a madman.

I know there's a lot to say about it.

It's depressing.

But I love this country.

And I do believe, even though the institutions of our country are under attack right now, look at how people have stood up.

I mean, it's taken too many elected officials

too long to stand up, but average folks out there peacefully protesting, showing up at No Kings, but not just that, showing up every week or every day whenever they can.

I'll tell you a quick story.

There's a woman in Edwardsville, Illinois, 28,000 people in Edwardsville in Southern Illinois.

She, right after Trump was elected and she realized what was happening, she didn't know what to do.

She wanted to protest.

So she made a sign and she went and stood at the crossroads of two state highways and held up a sign.

by herself.

And somebody with a dog walked by and said, what are you doing?

And she explained she's fed up and can't believe that Donald Trump is our president.

And that person stood there with her and with the dog that day.

The people heard about it.

And the next day, six of their friends showed up.

And then over the course of the next month or two, 300 people started showing up every Friday to protest.