Juliana Stratton Wins Senate Democratic Primary in Illinois

CHICAGO—Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won the Democratic Senate primary in Illinois on March 17, likely becoming the successor to retiring Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). Stratton defeated Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and will face former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy. Given Illinois’s Democratic lean, Stratton is all but guaranteed to win in the midterms in November. In a Jan. 29 debate on ABC affiliate WLS-TV, Stratton, Krishnamoorthi, and Kelly supported major changes to federal immigration enforcement and called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while supporting pathways to citizenship for Dreamers and other long-term illegal immigrants....