It is impossible to contemplate the political career of Illinois Governor Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker, one of America’s wealthiest politicians, without the starting point of a ten-figure net worth. He’s not a particularly gifted orator or a policy innovator, and his state is limping along economically.
Yet, when Forbes estimates your net worth at roughly $3.7 billion — more than LeBron James ($1.3 billion), Vivek Ramaswamy ($1.1 billion), and Jerry Seinfeld ($1.1 billion) combined — and you hint that you want to run for president, the political media are obligated to take you seriously. And guys like Pritzker don’t travel to places like Des Moines, Iowa, and Manchester, N.H., if they aren’t contemplating a presidential bid, one that will likely combine the ubiquitous advertising and runaway spending of Mike Bloomberg’s short-lived 2020 presidential run with Danny DeVito’s portrayal of the Penguin running for mayor of Gotham City in Batman Returns.
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