As Democrats prepare to contend with the coming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are co-chairing a new coalition called Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
While the initiative’s website describes it as “a nonpartisan alliance of governors” aiming to bolster “American democracy,” both co-chairs are Democrats.
“There’s been outreach to Republican governors,” Pritzker said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Good conversations, I might add, and there is continued interest by lots of governors. But I’m not going to name the ones that we’ve talked to.”
The website names “fast-moving disinformation campaigns” and “cyberthreats” as examples of “threats to our democracy.”
“Donald Trump is going to bring people into his administration who are absolute loyalists to his cult of personality and not necessarily to the law,” Pritzker said, according to the New York Times. “Last …