JB Pritzker

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Pod Save America · President of Peace Invades Chicago (feat. JB Pritzker) · 10 Oct 2025 podcast

And that's what he was trying to make it.

And because I don't think democracy is the issue on which you win.

I do think that you can't win unless you have democracy.

So those of us who have any power to do anything about it need to stand up and speak out about the danger of losing democracy.

And then we've also got to run campaigns all across the United States.

I'm running for reelection, but the Congress in particular, we've got to make sure that we're running campaigns about things that really matter in everybody's life.

I'll tell you a quick story, if I can, about something that happened to me when I was working on Capitol Hill.

I worked for two United States senators many years ago in my 20s.

I got offered the opportunity to go with this organization you may have heard of called the American Council of Young Political Leaders to a foreign country with, you know, half Democrats, half Republicans, young people like me at the time, where we learned about the we got sent to Argentina to learn about their political system.

And they would bring people from other countries to learn about ours.

We went there.

We landed in Buenos Aires.

And the minute we landed, strangely, there was a military coup.

I promise I had nothing to do with it.

But and so we went to the to the hotel, all of us together and watched on TV what was happening.

And then we had to make a decision or at least the leader of our group said we have to make a decision.

Are we going to go to the embassy and wait it out or are we going to go – there's going to be a democracy rally the next day in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires.

Should we go there to learn about democracy like in person in this situation?

And by the way, the vote was basically half and half.

The Republicans all wanted to go to the embassy.

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