Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stated that Democrats would be “wasting” their votes if they didn't support President Biden in the November presidential election.
“I’m not saying there won't be other names on the ballot. I'm just saying that when people go to the ballot in November, they will see there are only two real choices. It's a waste of your vote if you're a Democrat and you vote for someone other than Joe Biden,” Pritzker said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“And I believe that people will see the difference in values that I’m talking about and realize they need to vote for Joe Biden if they want to prevent the United States from falling into the hands of someone who has been indicted 91 times and would take this country backward,” he continued.
Pritzker dismissed worries about third-party candidates potentially altering the outcome of the November election, including independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gained the right to be on the ballot in Michigan last week, and Democrats are intensifying their efforts against the independent candidate.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being on the ballot in Michigan, I think is going to have a little effect on the ultimate result. People understand that there are really only two candidates that have a path to victory in this country and in Michigan. And, of course, that’s Joe Biden and Donald Trump,” he said.
In a three-way race between Trump, Biden, and Kennedy, Trump is leading by almost 1 percentage point with 42 percent of support, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national polling average. Biden closely follows with 41.1 percent of support while Kennedy has about 7.2 percent of support.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s and Kennedy’s campaigns for comment.
