Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton has launched a US Senate bid with a profanity-laced campaign ad that reduces political discourse to a crude attack on President Donald Trump while promising to dismantle federal immigration enforcement.
According to The Post Millennial, the 60-year-old progressive Democrat from Chicago released a 30-second video on X featuring a series of individuals declaring "F*ck Trump" before the screen flashes the message "Vote Juliana." In the caption, Stratton wrote, "They said it. We're all thinking it," signaling that this level of vulgarity is not a slip but a deliberate campaign strategy aimed at energizing the hard-left base rather than uniting a deeply divided electorate.
Stratton, who seeks to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin after his 26-year tenure, has built her platform around opposition to President Trump and a radical immigration agenda. After the expletive-filled montage, the current lieutenant governor appears on screen and declares, "I'm Juliana Stratton, and I am proud to have lived my whole life on the southside of Chicago. I'm not scared of a wannabe dictator. I'm running for Senate to stand up to Donald Trump," framing her candidacy as a personal crusade against the President rather than a service-driven bid for Illinois.
She then escalates her rhetoric further, vowing to dismantle a key federal law enforcement agency. "I'll abolish ICE and hold Trump accountable for the crimes he's committed," Stratton continues, embracing a position that would effectively gut immigration enforcement at a time when border security is already under severe strain. Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker, who has repeatedly clashed with the Trump administration over immigration operations in Chicago, appears in the same ad to urge voters to back Stratton, reinforcing the state partys alignment with open-borders activism over public safety and rule of law.
Stratton has doubled down on these positions in public forums, using a recent debate to insist that Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot be "reformed," and that its agents should be "prosecuted," regardless of which administration is in power. She claimed that ICE and Customs and Border Protection have "invaded and occupied our American cities" and asserted, "We're seeing the terror that they have inflicted," language more often reserved for hostile foreign forces than for American officers enforcing federal law.
Stratton is set to face Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi in the March 17 primary, in a contest that will test how far left Illinois Democrats are willing to go on immigration and political rhetoric. Gov. Pritzker has already funneled over $5 million into her campaign through a super PAC, according to NBC News, signaling that the states Democratic establishment is prepared to invest heavily in a candidate whose platform centers on abolishing ICE, prosecuting federal agents, and vilifying President Trump rather than addressing crime, economic instability, and border chaos that concern many voters.
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