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Ray Hanania's avatar

In response to my column, Pritzker issued a statement saying he backs Biden remaining and not withdrawing from the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election. He was very strong in endorsing Biden, which runs against growing calls from major Democrats, the New York Times, Washington Post and others urging Biden to withdraw and step aside. Of course, Pritzker's statement is purely political. He's not thinking of Biden or the American people. He's thinking of himself. IF Biden steps aside, Pritzker knows his statement makes him a SOLID DEMOCRAT LOYALIST when he campaigns to become the successor candidate.

“The president did a great job of answering questions throughout that meeting. Listen, Joe Biden is our nominee. I am for Joe Biden. I’ve been campaigning for Joe Biden. I think you’ve seen I’ve got dates scheduled to go to Indiana, to Ohio, for Joe Biden, so Joe Biden is going to be our nominee,” Pritzker told reporter Tuesday July 9, 2024 after attending a West Side Chicago event with Mayor Brandon Johnson.

“I’m not engaging in any hypotheticals. You can see that I’m all in for Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. I’m going to go out there and wholeheartedly campaign for him.”

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Both the first sentence of both your subtitle (single negative) & the content of your article (triple negative) say, in essence, that there is no office Pritzker can buy, when I think you mean to say there is no office he can't buy (double negative), which means he can buy any office.

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Ray Hanania's avatar

Thanks Jaime ... the headline is solid but the word can was a typo ... I always bow to those who know English composition better than I do ... I flunked English composition every year in elementary school and high school but a good high school teacher saw I had a talent for writing and asked me what I liked to do. I said I played one mean Les Paul guitar, lead in several high school rock bands ... she had me write a column each week on rock and roll music and the next year I became the editor of the school newspaper. Despite wanting to go into Medicine, where doctor's surely don't know how to spell -- just read their prescriptions -- I left Northern Illinois University for active duty service during the Vietnam War and found myself headed away from medicine towards politics. When I returned to Circle Campus, on the G.I. Bill, it was political writing all the way under the mentorship of Professor Milton Rakove. Surely, my mom (a single parent) was disappointed but here I am.

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