Dem Illinois Congressman Raj Krishnamoorthi announced to ABC News on Wednesday he’s throwing in for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Dick Durbin. “I have a track record of standing up to Donald Trump in Congress. I voted for impeaching him twice, but I also … played a big role in the first impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill,” said Krishnamoorthi, who serves as the top Dem on the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party and is a senior member of the Intel and Oversight committees. “But I have a track record of standing up to lots of bullies, whether it’s the e-cigarette companies that prey on our youth and try to hook them on vapes or it’s Purdue pharmaceuticals that try to hook a generation to Oxycontin. I’ve gone after all of them. They put a target on my back, but I got results, and now we need results with Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE.”
Krishnamoorthi has $19 million on-hand, which he’ll definitely need as he faces Lt Gov Juliana Stratton, who already landed endorsements from Gov JB Pritzker and Senator Tammy Duckworth.