BEDFORD, NH – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker traveled to the Granite State over the weekend to campaign for the Harris-Walz ticket and local democrats. On Sunday he addressed a crowd of local activists and candidates gathered in a Bedford backyard to kick off the Labor Day weekend of canvassing and political events.
U.S. Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), state Representative Catherine Rombeau, and Hillsborough County Democratic Chair Katy Cutshall also spoke to the crowd.
Congressman Chris Pappas began by noting the current level of dysfunction in the House of Representatives and how the stakes for this year’s election is the potential to switch to a democratic majority. He acknowledged the legislative record of the Biden administration and the pending agenda.
“When you think about our work to take down the big pharmaceutical companies, for the first time negotiating lower prices through Medicare, to cap insulin at $35 – we got that done because of your hard work, your votes but also the leadership we’ve seen from the Biden-Harris administration,” said Pappas. “It’s going to be really important to make sure that Kamala Harris is the next President of the United States… It will be critically important in Washington to make sure that we’re moving in the right direction, not going back to the extreme policies of Donald Trump, and where the Republicans want to take this country, which is not the direction New Hampshire wants to go.”
Governor Pritzker arrived in New Hampshire on the heels of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. The crowds, which included a few attending delegates gave the Governor a large round of applause when he described the success of the gathering.
He began by describing his family’s origin story as Ukrainian refugees escaping the Russians last century. A combination of some basic social support and determined hard work is their American story. For Pritzker civil treatment of immigration is a fundamental Democratic Party value and a contrast to the Trump agenda.
He then compared the distinctions of the Biden-Walz agenda with the Republican plans. He directly linked Project 2025 to Trump and warned of the danger that the plan represents.
“Donald Trump and JD Vance’s plans would do the opposite. Trump and Vance would rip away the very support that working families deserve, eliminate access to affordable health care for millions of people, and increase costs for America’s middle class. New Hampshire families deserve better,” said Pritzker.
