Illinois Senate candidate endorsed by Duckworth

Illinois Governor Juliana Straton picked up the support of senator Tami Dakright in the preliminary elections to succeed retired Senator Dick Dorbin.

Straton launched her campaign last week after Durbin, 80 -year -old, who was first -elected in the Senate in 1996, announced that he would not seek to re -election in 2026. She was supported last week by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.

“Not only Juliana has proven that she is an experienced and effective Lieutenant ruler – she has repeatedly showed that she truly understood and cares about workers,” Dackerett, who represented Illinois, told Politico.

She added: “I am honored to be next to me in the Senate while we are working to achieve real results for Illinois, and I am proud to support her campaign.”

Durbin, no. 2 Democratic Senate, will not seek to be re -elected

“Donald Trump and Eileon Musk are trying to pay our attention to creating such chaos that we do not even know where to start. But in Washington, they still do the same old things that they have always done, and this old book does not work,” Straton said in a video.

Straton described herself as a teacher and an old warrior on the southern side of Chicago, and a mother for four years.

Politico told her that she was “honored” by supporting Duckworth and that “Tammy is a real leader of Ilinoy who is not back away from the challenge.”

Durbins says that elderly lawmakers should think of leaving politics “before its implementation.”

Senator Richard Durbin, DL, speaks during the 2024 National Democratic Conference at the United Nations in Chicago in August 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The port also stated that Straton had previously appeared alongside Dackeret to support the American -Asian society during the month of American heritage in Hawaii/Pacific.

Last Wednesday, Durbin said: “The decision whether to run for his re -election was not easy.”

“I really love the task to be a member of the Senate in the United States. But in my heart, I know that it is time to pass the flame. So I announced today that I will not seek to be re -elected at the end of my state.”

Illinois, Lieutenant Juliana Straton and Senator Tami Dakrith, Di Il. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

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Durbin Democrat becomes the fourth in the Senate, whose term ended at the end of the next year, who decided not to re -election in the middle of the period 2026, and joins Sense. Jane Shaheen from New Hampshire, Gary Peters from Michigan, and Tina Smith from Minnesota.

Michael Dorgan and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.