{"id":2292650,"date":"2024-07-11T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-democrat-gov-jb-pritzker-caught-on-hot-mic-says-what-he-really-thinks-about-biden-i-dont-like-where-we-are\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:51:55","slug":"watch-democrat-gov-jb-pritzker-caught-on-hot-mic-says-what-he-really-thinks-about-biden-i-dont-like-where-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-democrat-gov-jb-pritzker-caught-on-hot-mic-says-what-he-really-thinks-about-biden-i-dont-like-where-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker Caught on Hot Mic, Says What He Really Thinks About Biden &#8211; &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Like Where We Are&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-democrat-gov-jb-pritzker-caught-on-hot-mic-says-what-he-really-thinks-about-biden-i-dont-like-where-we-are%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2292650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2064summary discusses Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker&#8217;s private comments expressing concerns \u200babout the Democratic Party&#8217;s situation and President Joe Biden&#8217;s declining popularity. \u2063Despite publicly supporting Biden, Pritzker voiced doubts about Biden&#8217;s ability to win against Donald Trump in the upcoming election.\u200c The article also mentions speculation about Pritzker possibly replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee. The overall tone suggests uncertainty and tension within the party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 11, 2024 at 6:44am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker may have been one of the first to rush to President Joe Biden\u2019s defense in the wake of the debate debacle of June 27, even though he was one of the Democrats most prominently named to possibly replace Biden atop the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>However, even Pritzker can\u2019t ignore reality.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral hot mic moment on Wednesday, Pritzker \u2014 one of the members of the wealthy hotelier family that owns the Hyatt brand \u2014 told an individual that he didn\u2019t think that the party was in a good place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just going to keep fighting. I don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d a resigned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-gov-pritzker-gives-democrats-near-record-power-in-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pritzker<\/a> told the man.<\/p>\n<p>The governor added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to do what we have to do. I don\u2019t like where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-responds-to-schumers-hot-mic-remarks-warnock-was-longing-to-kiss-up-to-schumer\/\" title=\"Herschel Walker Responds To Schumer\u2019s Hot Mic Remarks: Warnock Was \u2018Longing To Kiss Up To Schumer\u2019\">hot mic remarks<\/a> from \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPritzker?\">@GovPritzker<\/a>\u2069 \u201cI don\u2019t like where we are\u201d \u2013 in contrast to his public support for Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b2jl2OsNvN\">pic.twitter.com\/b2jl2OsNvN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryAnnAhernNBC\/status\/1811209308824109400?\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhere we are\u201d refers to the fact that Biden is down in virtually every poll to Donald Trump \u2014 even the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">popular vote<\/a>, which means nothing but which the president would likely need to be ahead in to have any reasonable chance of beating the presumptive GOP nominee in swing states \u2014 after the debate revealed Biden to be the cognitively withered shell of a human being that pretty much all of his critics said he was.<\/p>\n<p>Intervening interviews have been no better, with Biden telling ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/interview-biden-admits-cant-even-remember-watched-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he couldn\u2019t remember<\/a> if he\u2019d watched his performance a week prior and that he \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/interview-disaster-biden-claims-put-nato-together-just-6-years-old-founded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put NATO together<\/a>.\u201d (It\u2019s been together since 1949.)<\/p>\n<p>He told another interviewer that he was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-declares-black-woman-bumbling-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first black female president<\/a> \u2014 and that was with questions his campaign had pre-submitted, which ended up getting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/radio-station-parts-ways-host-exposes-biden-admits-wh-influenced-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woman who hosted the interview canned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/dnc-chicago-2024\/gov-pritzker-recorded-on-hot-mic-discussing-bidens-status-in-presidential-race\/3486079\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WMAQ-TV\u2019s<\/a> Mary Ann Ahern reported, this rather starkly contrasts with Pritzker\u2019s public stance on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When neo Nazis marched on Charlottesville chanting \u201cJews will not replace us\u201d, Donald Trump called them very fine people. And now he says it\u2019s all a lie. It\u2019s not a lie, Donald Trump is just a liar. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Debates2024?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Debates2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBPritzker\/status\/1806507375794524580?\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Voters face a stark choice in November. A president with the experience to fight for hardworking families across the country vs a 34-count convicted felon who cares only about himself.<\/p>\n<p>The choice is clear. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Debates2024?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Debates2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBPritzker\/status\/1806514777520566777?\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Pritzker during the debate dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-cries-wolf-says-trumps-language-echoes-heard-nazi-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Nazi bomb<\/a>, and after it saying that American \u201c[v]oters face a stark choice in November. A president with the experience to fight for hardworking families across the country vs a 34-count convicted felon who cares only about himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>That<\/em> was his takeaway from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/omnishambles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">omnishambles<\/a> performance Joe Biden turned in. And he expected people to buy it. And continues to expect people to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden is our nominee. I\u2019m for Joe Biden. I\u2019ve been campaigning for Joe Biden,\u201d Pritzker has said publicly in the wake of the debate, WMAQ noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only one person on ballot that\u2019s every beaten former President Trump, and that\u2019s President Joe Biden,\u201d Pritzker added. \u201cHe has a proven track record that is really unmatched and unparalleled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the station noted, \u201cas he pushes Biden\u2019s candidacy, Pritzker is busy increasing his national profile \u2014 speaking this weekend to gatherings of Democrats in Indiana and Ohio.\u00a0 As to whether that is to support Biden, or to raise his own profile, Pritzker said the message was ultimately more important than who was delivering it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suppose you could say that about any of the surrogates who are traveling around the Midwest or the country, that they\u2019re introducing themselves\u00a0 some way or another, but importantly what we\u2019re doing is talking about why it\u2019s important to reelect Joe Biden,\u201d Pritzker said.<\/p>\n<p>The unsaid part of that quote is that Pritzker is very much in the discussion of people who might replace Biden at the top of the ticket at a brokered convention in his state\u2019s biggest city, Chicago, come next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois governor was one of six people checked by name in a New York Times Op-Ed by Hollywood Democrat personage George Clooney asking Biden to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/george-clooney-calls-biden-drop-race-just-weeks-hosting-glitzy-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step aside as nominee on Wednesday<\/a> \u2014 including, in order, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, and Pritzker \u2014 who might be considered in a kind of unofficial \u201cblitz primary\u201d before the convention which would, in no way, turn into a spiral of negative campaigning and party infighting.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it <em>would<\/em>; these are people who have built their entire careers standing behind political dirty-work operatives trying to look as clean as possible and trying to fail as little as possible, and Democrats are asking them to throw that entire skill set out the window and hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/powerful-democrats-plot-replace-biden-via-blitz-primary-involve-michelle-obama-taylor-swift-oprah-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kumbaya blitz primary<\/a> in just a month.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker is more realistic; this is what he actually thinks. Maybe the nomination will fall to him, maybe it won\u2019t. It might be worthless either way, given the amount of political blood that would have to be shed to reshape the Democratic Party at this late hour.<\/p>\n<p>But at least he knows that the party itself is not in a good place where they are right now, which is with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-defiant-letter-house-democrats-slammed-breathtakingly-cynical-dishonest-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden at the top of the ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. 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If we lose this one to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-democrat-leadership-is-terrifying\/\" title=\"Why Democrat Leadership is Terrifying\">wealthy elites<\/a> who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. 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In a hot mic moment, Pritzker admitted that he didn&#8217;t like where the party was headed, especially with Biden trailing in polls to Donald Trump. Pritzker&#8217;s public statements in support of Biden contrasted with his private doubts about the nominee&#8217;s performance. While Pritzker continued to campaign for Biden, he also increased his national profile, leading to speculation that he could potentially replace Biden at a brokered convention. The Democratic Party&#8217;s future remains uncertain, with Pritzker acknowledging that they are not in a good place with Biden as the nominee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2292651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pritzker-and-biden.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4912,34666,24238,4516],"class_list":["post-2292650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrat","tag-gov-jb-pritzker","tag-hot-mic","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pritzker-and-biden.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}