DEMS' SHARP ELBOWS — SOUNDING A LOT LIKE TRUMP — U. of I. SALIVA TEST A WINNER politico.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from politico.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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We are about six months from the start of the 2022 election cycle, and the Democratic Party of Illinois needs to start rolling up its sleeves and getting to work on earning the vote of all Illinoisans. They say that it is the responsibility of Local Democratic Parties, but most local Democratic Parties don’t get all the resources that they need to be effective. They never have the funds they need because their economies do not even support small dollar donations. Let me see, “Do I put food on the table this week or donate $10 to the local Democratic Party or a local candidate who probably has no chance of winning?” Tough choice, right?
It's official: Illinois electors cast ballots for Biden, Harris news-gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news-gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Members of the Illinois Electoral College on Monday called for nationwide unity and a full-speed transition to a new administration as they cast all 20 of the state’s electoral votes for Democrats Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president amid President Donald Trump’s continuing dispute of the November election results.
Several electors said they were happy to be casting their votes for Harris, a California senator and the first African-American and first woman to be elected vice president.
The socially distanced vote, held in the Illinois House chamber during the global COVID-19 pandemic, was a formality in a state with a winner-take-all system and all-Democratic electors selected for the electoral college, as a result.