J.B. Pritzker

illinois_governor_2018_67539.jpg

FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman, announces his 2018 run for Illinois governor in Chicago. Democrats looking to unseat the first-term governor in 2018 say the moves should alarm people in Illinois, where lawmakers' inability to agree on a state budget led to deep cuts to social services and universities and caused the state to rack up almost $15 billion in unpaid bills. "This is the Donald Trump playbook of playing to the worst extremes of your base when you have nothing left to lose," said Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokeswoman for Democratic candidate Pritzker. (Max Herman/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)