Gov. JB Pritzker

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.

I give that as an example.

This is in Edwardsville, Illinois.

Right.

And I give that as the example, because this is happening everywhere.

When the suburban, you know, moms, you know, are coming out with their whistles to protect people in neighborhoods that they don't even they've never lived in or protect their own neighbors because they see that they're being attacked by ice.

That, you know, this is the the country that is we're taking this country back.