{"id":47023,"date":"2026-03-18T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47023"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:21:10","slug":"stratton-favored-to-succeed-durbin-after-senate-primary-win-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47023","title":{"rendered":"Stratton Favored to Succeed Durbin After Senate Primary Win in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Stratton Favored to Succeed Durbin After Senate Primary Win in Illinois<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Stratton Favored to Succeed Durbin After Senate Primary Win in Illinois<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday. She is heavily favored to succeed the retiring Senator Dick Durbin in November.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI\u2019m Juliana Stratton. I\u2019m so proud to serve as your lieutenant governor, and I am humbled and honored to stand before you tonight as your Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s time for bold ideas, big dreams and real courage in Washington. Courage inspired me to run. Courage powered this campaign. And courage will bring this fight straight to Donald Trump\u2019s door.\u201d \u201cFor almost eight years, I\u2019ve had the pleasure of calling her well, lieutenant governor. Well, I am so proud that in seven months we get to call her senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday. She is heavily favored to succeed the retiring Senator Dick Durbin in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>March 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Stratton Favored to Succeed Durbin After Senate Primary Win in Illinois transcript Back transcript Stratton Favored to Succeed Durbin After Senate Primary Win in Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday. She is heavily favored to succeed the retiring Senator Dick Durbin in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[23873,23872,5480,6711,1314,23871,8678,1259],"class_list":{"0":"post-47023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-durbin","9":"tag-favored","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-primary","12":"tag-senate","13":"tag-stratton","14":"tag-succeed","15":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}