{"id":482296,"date":"2026-03-18T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:23:10","slug":"juliana-stratton-wins-illinois-democratic-primary-for-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482296\/","title":{"rendered":"Juliana Stratton wins Illinois Democratic primary for US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durbin, 81, will retire next year after serving five terms in the US Senate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her victory on Tuesday came after months of trailing in the polls but she received an endorsement and a reportedly $12m cash injection from billionaire governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stratton sprung ahead by digging into her opposition of Trump&#8217;s immigration enforcement, directly calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Krishnamoorthi took a more measured stance in comparison, calling for the abolishment of &#8220;Trump&#8217;s ICE&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In her victory speech in Chicago, Stratton said: &#8220;Courage inspired me to run. Courage powered this campaign and courage will bring this fight straight to Donald Trump&#8217;s front door.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turnout for this year&#8217;s Senate race was unusually high for a non-presidential year, with over 1.1 million votes tallied in the Democratic primary \u2013 on pace to exceed the 2004 primary, when Barack Obama was running for Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Stratton is elected, she would become the sixth black woman to serve in the Senate in its 237 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would also be the first time three black women served in the Senate at the same time, as she would join Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Rochester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durbin, 81, will retire next year after serving five terms in the US Senate. Her victory on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-482296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}