By Evaristo Angulo Lara
JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, will suspend all activities on his agenda because you underwent a medical procedure
According to a spokesperson for his office, The 62-year-old billionaire entered the health center on Friday so that a group of doctors could treat him through a “routine outpatient urological procedure.”
“Next week, the governor will fulfill his duties and suspend public events to rest. The governor appreciates the good wishes and hopes to resume public events soon,” says a brief statement, which does not offer details about what exactly made it mandatory for the state president to intervene.
Although Pritzker is mentioned as being able to perform most of his duties, Juliana Stratton, lieutenant governor, will remain in Illinois as long as her boss’s health is not 100%.
JB Pritzker is considered one of the Democrats whose name has gained strength to compete as a presidential candidate in the 2028 elections.
The television network NBC, He noted that two people close to his work team, whose identity he keeps confidential, agreed that has contacted fundraising professionals at the national level to propose the possibility of creating a strategy that will allow him to obtain resources to launch a possible presidential candidacy. conditioned to the results of some surveys to be launched soon.
If this scenario comes to fruition, it would be the first time that Pritzker uses fundraising to strengthen one of his campaign.
For now, His immediate objective is to be re-elected for the third time as head of Illinois.
It is estimated that in his first two campaigns for governor his expenses exceeded $350 million dollars paid directly out of his pocket.
In addition to this, through a PAC, he allocated $10 million dollars to the campaign of Juliana Stratton, Democratic candidate for the Senate for Illinois.
According to the Forbes Magazinethe hotel empire he inherited and his business skills have allowed JB Pritzker to have assets estimated at nearly $4 billion.
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