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'Looks like he's getting ready for a fight': Why JB Pritzker is slimming down
Good job Gov.
‘Looks like he's getting ready for a fight’: Why JB Pritzker is slimming down
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‘Looks like he's getting ready for a fight’: Why JB Pritzker is slimming down
Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, would hardly be the first candidate to drop weight ahead of a campaign.
By Shia Kapos and Emily Schultheis 08/30/2025 07:00 AM EDT
CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker doesn’t quite look the same on the campaign trail these days. His pants hang loose, his jacket buttons no longer strain — the Democrat known for his barrel-shaped frame cutting a noticeably trimmer silhouette in his bid for a third term.
“How about, just for health,” Pritzker said when POLITICO asked about his weight loss...................................
.........Everyone’s noticing. At an event in Los Angeles earlier this month, many attendees in the heavily Democratic audience said they’d come partly out of curiosity about whether the Midwestern governor could be their party’s next standardbearer. In a city famous for surface judgments, some said Pritzker’s trimmer look stood out.
“Yes, because the last really heavyweight president was William Taft,” one gray-haired attendee said, adding, “Excepting Donald Trump.”
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He was so great. He was mayor from 1983 to 1987. He united People of Color, LGBT and liberal white people. The racism that came out during that election from his opponents and much of the white population of Chicago was INSANE. He worked under a lot of stress fighting city council. He worked long hours and gained weight. He died suddenly of a massive heart attack while working at City Hall thought to be do partially to poor diet and his weight and the amount of stress from his job and all the death threats.
I have been worried our Governor Pritzker could suffer the same fate. I hope our Governor can stay healthy. He works very hard for the people of our state.
