Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Sixty-one percent of 800 voters polled responded they approved of the state’s response to COVID-19. Thirty-seven percent disapproved. Even in central and southern Illinois, where much of the backlash to mask mandates and business closures has been centered, greater than 50% of voters polled in each area of the state approve of the state’s handling of the pandemic.
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Living in Katie Stuarts district I am so often dissapointed on how her vote to send more money to assorted school districts other than the one she supposedly represents.
Typical Illinois
Fake poll. Period.
Corrupt media gotta try to win it for Freddie.
We need a viable GOP candidate and Griffin’s wallet.
This shows the voting power the free stuff army and unions have at the voting booths. They could be overcome but with the laid back too lazy to vote crowd doing their usual it looks like Pritzker is here to stay.
I don’t believe this poll – fake news/fake poll.
They have to tee-up the mail-in ballot steal.
My front yard still displays a Pritzker Sucks sign. And there many, many more throughout southern Illinois. I’m not buying this poll.
I don’t buy it. Traveling around Illinois rural areas I’ve seen too many ‘Pritzker Sucks’ signs to believe this poll.
Not buying it.
Not surprising. The Republicans don’t have a viable candidate yet, there is no groundswell of Republican support in the burbs, most independents are too tired to care, and Dems gonna Dem. The fed bailout offered JB enough of a cushion to weather the next election and since the GA has given him virtually zero pushback, people have the sense that things are running smoothly when it’s merely the by-product of single-party rule.
There is NO WAY this poll is accurate. Democrats are under water everywhere, but in Illinois, home of a tyrant governor who has impacted the lives of millions with unnecessary lockdowns and unending executive orders is widely popular? This is setting up the state for an election with irregularities. Just wait for it.
I think you are right. Look at the poll details and you can see it leans left. And its numbers aren’t that great for JB anyway.
““50% approval, 40% disapproval when Democrats are polling at historically low numbers is pretty, pretty good for JB,” said one Democratic operative who reviewed the poll results. “He gets re-elected with these poll numbers.””
So nationally Democrats are in the worst position in decades, it hasn’t been this bad since Carter was president, but Illinois residents, double-down on stupid and vote to re-elect JB.
This state is unfixable because of the people. The conservatives who could afford to leave have already left and now only the moochers, haters and illegals remain.
I’m a conservative who is still here and am only partly surprised to hear these numbers. I cringe when I see the masked morons when I go out, yet they take it in stride, or even worse, seem to like it. Trying to figure out which state to make a move to but haven’t yet; and no, Florida is too humid for me.
I know quite a few people moving to TN and not just Nashville. WI has slightly worse weather than Chicago but it also mostly a red state (but for those late night vote drops out of Milwaukee County for the few thousand vote win for the D candidate…)
Wow! I hadn’t realized how wildly popular Porky has become. The Illinoize? jBPritzker, owner/publisher.