by Hannah Bleau
February 22, 2020
Democrat strategist Justin Horwitz said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday that the Democrats’ turn on former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who recently declared himself a “Trumpocrat,” will “backfire.”
Horwitz, who is from Illinois, said that many people outside of the state do not realize that Blagojevich was “an incredibly popular governor” and that the Democrats’ opposition to his commutation will “backfire.”
“Sen. Durbin, when Trump initially proposed giving a pardon or commuting Rod’s sentence earlier in the year, he said, yeah, Trump should commute the sentence,” Horwitz said, quoting Durbin, who previously called the sentence “outrageous.”
“What Blagojevich did is what we all know that goes on basically every day on Capitol Hill,” Horwitz said, explaining that the Democrats’ turn on the former governor will backfire due, in part, to the successes he saw during his term.
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