Gov. JB Pritzker

You need democracy so we can have the election.

You know, what wins the election, though, is fighting for people to be able to pay their bills, for God's sakes, to make enough money so that, you know, they can afford their electricity, they can afford their housing.

And we Democrats don't talk enough about why it is that we became Democrats in the first place, what the Democratic Party is.

We're the party, I hate to say, maybe you want to pick somebody else, but I would say we're the party of Franklin Roosevelt.

That this is fundamentally, even though I was born in 1965, fundamentally, we are the party of Franklin Roosevelt, adding with that very strong focus on civil rights and human rights.

And we didn't live up to that.

So the second thing, so fighting for democracy was kind of a moment when I was like, okay, I'm for fighting for democracy, but that's not the theme.

Also, to your point, in 2024,

Where was everybody talking about, we have a $7.25 minimum wage in this country.

I mean, Jesus, you can't survive on two jobs at $7.25.

If you're holding down two jobs, you can't survive on that.

That's $28,000 a year.

You can't feed your family on that, let alone one job.

Why are we as a party not out there fighting for, you know, the things that we really believe in that, you know?

So, you know, I've had it for people forgetting about about, you know, people forgetting about what our party is really all about, what why we exist as a party, civil rights, human rights.

Fighting for people to be able to pay their bills, the working class and the most vulnerable people.

These are the fundamentals of what we are as a you know, we're the ones who created Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.

Why are people quiet when Donald Trump is ripping those things apart?

Well, let me start by saying these are particularly challenging, hard questions when you're asking somebody who's Jewish like me, because, you know, remember that Israel in many ways was created as a safe haven.

for people who were escaping antisemitism and indeed the Holocaust.