Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthhi launches the Senate of Illinois campaign, joining a growing field

Washington – Representative Raja Krishnamoorthhi is launching a campaign for the Senate in Illinois, jumping in an increasing democratic field for a firmly blue siege.

He joined Lieutenant-Governor Juliana Stratton and democratic Representative Robin Kelly In the race for a headquarters canceled by the Democratic senator Dick Durbin, 80, who retires after more than four decades in the congress. Other Democrats also weigh.

Krishnamoorthhi, 51, who was elected for the first time in the Chamber in 2016, represents a democratic district near Chicago. He said he was going to arrive on the campaign path on Friday to make stops in Peoria, Chicago and Schaumburg.

Her Video launch Understands fierce criticism from President Donald Trump, calling him “condemned criminal” who typed “billionaires like Elon Musk” to exploit the Americans to stimulate their own “Egos and personal profit”. He shed light on his “funny name”, comparing him to that of former president Barack Obama, for whom he worked in the past, and encourages voters to simply call him “Raja”.

Questioned in an interview which distinguishes him from his rivals, Krishnamoorthhi praised a “career to resist intimidators” as the electronic cigarette industry and pharmaceutical companies.

“If I had doubts about the race for the Senate, I think they were erased after what we saw in the first 100 days of the Trump administration,” he said. “Many people feel like the American dream is out of reach right now, and this is even more impossible because of the economic chaos than Donald Trump and Doge and Elon Musk have unleashed. And I and my family enjoyed the American dream. … And I think it is my mission to make sure that it is available to others, accessible to others.”

He also quoted his “prominent role in Donald Trump’s first dismissal” as a member of the House Intelligence Committee at the time.

Krishnamoorthhi is the best democrat of the selective committee of the Chamber on the American-Chinese competition, formed in early 2023. Although he climbed the ranks of various committees, he puts this into play, because he will have to abandon his seat in the Chamber to be on the ballot for the Senate.

His ambitions for a higher office were foreshadowing last month by his prolific fundraising. He raised $ 3 million in the first quarter of the year and had $ 19 million in cash. This will be useful in what is likely to be an expensive primary.

Krishnamoorthi, who worked on Obama’s first campaigns for the Congress in Illinois, said that he had not told him about his Senate plans.

“The most important approval is the people of Illinois,” he said. “And I’m going to go everywhere and try to ask everyone’s approval.”

The winner of the Democratic primary will be the big favorite of the general elections.

If it is elected, the first vote that Krishnamoorthhi will probably have to be expressed would be for the Democratic leader of the Senate. When asked if he would support the re -elect of Chuck Schumer, New York, Krishnamoorthi said: “I don’t have this vote at the moment. If I had the privilege of being there, I would absolutely like to hear it on the questions I just talked about, “refer to what the government makes the American dream accessible.

Last year, Trump’s re -election sparked a calculation of the Democrats who should be played through the primaries of Illinois and elsewhere, their voters wishing a more aggressive posture of party leaders.

“And also, we cannot defend the status quo,” said Krishnamoorthhi. “We have to shake for change.”