In the race for the Illinois US Senate to fill the seat as Durbin retires, candidate Julianna Stratton has surged in the last week of February and continues to pick up momentum in the final weeks. She now leads Raja.
US Rep Raja Kristnamoorthi began with the early fundraising advantage with 18 million in the bank as of last fall. He also began a blitz of tv ads at that time. In January, every major poll had him with a +20 lead with Stratton and Robin Kelly in the teens. But things have turned around.
Backed by Governor JB Pritzker, Stratton brought a series of ad buys with massive campaign activity in February. While the polls reflected Raja’s name id advatage owed to his early ads, voters were not particularly attached to him. In fact, the more voters get to know Raja, the less they are inclined to vote for him.
Public Policy Polling has Stratton up by 3 points. Their previos poll on February 24th had Raja up by just two.
Raja is backed by the Fairshake Pac which is the arm of the crypto industry. It is literally comprised of Trump backers. Fairshake has targeted Stratton with $7 million in negative ads. The crypto industry has selected Raja to be the US Senator from Illinois. They will count on Raja to oppose legislation that protects consumers.
In these last couple of weeks, it will be the voters who collectively decide who will be the next senator from Illinois.