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From Breitbart: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) is open to the idea of running for an Illinois senate seat as a MAGA Republican, telling Breitbart News Saturday, “never say never” when asked.
Blagojevich spoke about what he predicts to be a historic midterm election — historically bad for Democrats — when host Matthew Boyle asked if he is considering a political comeback, given his past scandal while he served as the Democratic governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. Blagojevich was impeached following charges of public corruption and served nearly eight years of a 14-year sentence. President Donald Trump has since pardoned him.
“Is it something you’d consider: Running as a Republican — as a MAGA, America First Republican — for the U.S. Senate in Illinois? Or if not … what’s your advice to various possible candidates out there?” Boyle asked.
“You know, never say never,” Blagojevich replied. “It’d be quite a story, wouldn’t it? You know, coming out of prison after eight years and then returning to Washington and becoming a United States senator.”
“I’d like to say to your listeners: I didn’t break a law across the line or take a penny,” Blagojevich continued.
Longtime Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, 80, of Illinois, announced last week that he will not run for re-election in 2026. Boyle was asking Blagojevich if he would run for Durbin’s seat.
The former Democrat governor, who now leans right and supports President Trump, noted that the Democrat Party is a far cry from the Party he once knew, and said he believes the Democrat candidate for Durbin’s seat will end up being a far-left radical.
“This is more evidence that the lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party has become the mainstream, and these crazy, left-wing socialists are chasing out the more reasonable Democrats,” he said.
“That part of the Democrat Party is now running the show and chasing out these other Democrats,” he continued.
“But whether I do something along those lines, or whether there’s others, I do think that the winning strategy and the winning formula in a state like Illinois isn’t the traditional politics,” Blagojevich also said, adding, “It isn’t being the traditional Democrat, or the crazy lunatic socialist Democrat, or the traditional corporate country club Republican. It’s being, you know, a populist, common sense candidate that shares a lot of the same values of the Make America Great Again movement.”
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Last week, Blagojevich wrote in a post on X, “After 28 years, Il.Sen. Dick Durbin is retiring. I knew him well when I was in Congress & Governor. He is a career politician, hyper partisan Dem. & political insider whose wife used to lobby me. I’m surprised he is leaving. Making America Great Again one retirement at a time.”
After 28 years, Il.Sen. Dick Durbin is retiring. I knew him well when I was in Congress & Governor. He is a career politician, hyper partisan Dem. & political insider whose wife used to lobby me. I’m surprised he is leaving. Making America Great Again one retirement at a time.
— Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) April 23, 2025
Also last week, Blagojevich blasted Democrats for all the focus they placed on a deported illegal alien.
“When I was a Democrat governor all those years ago, we knew the difference between a man & a woman & the difference between an illegal immigrant gangbanger from El Salvador & “a Maryland man.” The Dems today seem to be visiting El Salvador more than their own districts,” he wrote.
When I was a Democrat governor all those years ago, we knew the difference between a man & a woman & the difference between an illegal immigrant gangbanger from El Salvador & “a Maryland man.” The Dems today seem to be visiting El Salvador more than their own districts.
— Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) April 22, 2025
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