A recent statewide poll that gives Governor JB Pritzker a big lead in his bid for re-election also finds that Illinoisans aren’t particularly interested in seeing Pritzker try to move up to the White House.
Pritzker’s future political ambitions have been the subject of a lot of speculation after he made several high-profile trips to address Democrats in other key states earlier this year. Pritzker says he’s focused on re-election, but hasn’t ruled out a possible presidential run in the future.
But that Chicago Sun-Times poll finds even in his home state, only 13-percent of Illinoisans approved of Pritzker running in 2024, while 66-percent were opposed. However, Pritzker still performs better than Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup, beating the former president among Illinois voters 51 to 42 percent.
