Edward-Isaac Dovere

Now adding Blue Sky to the posting - follow me there: bsky.app/profile/isaacd…

More in the story, including Pritzker’s response to the CBC drama to @IsaacDovere and some positive views of Pritzker (and his presidential aspirations) that Sen Elizabeth Warren shared with me, suggesting he might be the rare billionaire that she likes. cnn.com/2026/03/17/pol…

IL Lt Gov Juliana Stratton campaigned for US Senate promising not to support Sen. Schumer to lead the Democratic caucus. She said this morning they haven’t spoken after she won the nomination. “We’ve missed each other.” Also declined to say who she would like to see as leader.

in the middle of primary day yesterday, I sat down with @GovPritzker at Manny's deli in Chicago. He skipped his usual order of a tall pastrami sandwich - “I’m already carrying around a lot of pastrami,” he joked - but he did talk through what he and others say Stratton's Senate win says about him and how he operates: cnn.com/2026/03/18/pol…

NEW from me and @scontorno: What JB Pritzker, his team and others think his lieutenant governor Julianna Statton's win in the Senate primary says about him, his operation and 2028: cnn.com/2026/03/18/pol…

One nugget in this: many saw the Congressional Black Caucus chair's late shot at Pritzker's involvement as concerning for his 2028 hopes. But Rep. Clyburn, the influential SC kingmaker, told me he was unaware of the statement & Pritzker was “free to support anyone he wants to.”

As the Chicago races finish with mixed results for AIPAC's backed candidates -- but their top target @DanielBiss wins his House primary anyway -- my story from Sunday on what they were doing in these races, and his plans to now tell other candidates not to be scared of them: cnn.com/2026/03/15/pol…

in case you missed from the weekend: my story on how AIPAC has become an increasingly major and tricky issue on the campaign trail, starting with tomorrow's primaries in Illinois - cnn.com/2026/03/15/pol…

NEW from me: what happens in Tuesday's Illinois races and beyond as AIPAC becomes a major issue in Democratic primaries “AIPAC historically had a position that there were friends and future friends,” said longtime ally @RepSchneider. “It appears that they got away from that thinking.” cnn.com/2026/03/15/pol…

I want to correct something I posted earlier on X, which inaccurately implied that Mayor Mamdani was the target of political violence in last week’s ISIS inspired attempted terror attack in New York City. Law enforcement officials have said the two terror suspects threw improvised explosive devices at an anti-Islam demonstration and a counterprotest near Mayor Mamdani’s home Saturday, but did not say that he was the target. I apologize for the error and have deleted the original post.

another step in the vampire takeover

A growing number of Republican-led states are moving swiftly to implement new voting restrictions, plowing ahead on a key plank of President Donald Trump’s agenda that has so far been stuck on Capitol Hill. cnn.com/2026/03/11/pol…

Clyburn announcement about *something* tomorrow (he turns 86 this summer)

Obama only held his Illinois Senate seat for four years, but he is so popular in the state that all three of the candidates have A) been endorsed by him in the past and B) featured his past praise of him in their campaigns this year But he is not involved in this year's race:

the former Illinois senator has not endorsed in this race, but that 2016 ad from Obama, full of praise for Stratton, can be heard here: politico.com/video/2016/03/…

With the Illinois Senate primary now 6 days away, Julianna Stratton adds a red box (the workaround that lets a campaign signal preferred messaging to super PACs) which suggests pulling from an Obama radio ad for her 2016 state representative race: julianastratton.com/news

Another Whitmer meeting at the White House just now: spokesperson: they talked about -tornadoes -the state's appeal for FEMA funding -Selfridge Air National Guard Base and the Brandon Road Interbasin project "We appreciate the president's time."

The only topics surveyed in the new NBC News poll that were less popular than AI? The Democratic Party and Iran nbcnews.com/politics/polit… by @akarl_smith

All of a sudden yesterday, a $2.5 million donation appeared in one lump for the group opposed to the Virginia Democrats’ gerrymandering effort -