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Casey Chlebek
Casey Chlebek (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Illinois. He declared candidacy for the Republican primary scheduled on March 17, 2026.[source]
Biography
Casey Chlebek was born in Czarny Dunajec, Poland. Chlebek earned a degree in computer science. His career experience includes founding C&J Realty Management Inc. and working as its president. Chlebek founded PNA Lodge #3279 and has served as its president and as the president of the Polish American Congress – Illinois Division.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: United States Senate election in Illinois, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on March 17, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. Additional general election candidates will be added here following the primary.
General election for U.S. Senate Illinois
Austin Mink, Tyrone Muhammad, and Anthony Smith are running in the general election for U.S. Senate Illinois on November 3, 2026.
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 | Austin Mink (Independent)  | |
| Tyrone Muhammad (Independent) | ||
| Anthony Smith (Independent) | ||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2026.
Candidate | ||
| Steve Botsford | ||
| Awisi Bustos | ||
| Jonathan Dean | ||
 | Adam Delgado | |
 | Robin Kelly | |
 | Raja Krishnamoorthi | |
 | Stanley Leavell | |
| Bryan Maxwell | ||
 | Robert Palmer | |
| Adair Rodriquez | ||
 | Kevin Ryan | |
| Jump Shepherd | ||
 | Juliana Stratton | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dick Durbin (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates are running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2026.
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| Panagioti Bartzis | ||
 | Doug Bennett | |
 | R. Cary Capparelli | |
 | Casey Chlebek | |
 | John Goodman | |
 | Pamela Denise Long | |
| Januario Ortega | ||
 | Jimmy Lee Tillman II | |
| Don Tracy | ||
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2022
See also: United States Senate election in Illinois, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Tammy Duckworth defeated Kathy Salvi, Bill Redpath, Lowell Seida, and Connor VlaKancic in the general election for U.S. Senate Illinois on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tammy Duckworth (D) | 56.8 | 2,329,136 |
 | Kathy Salvi (R) | 41.5 | 1,701,055 | |
 | Bill Redpath (L) | 1.7 | 68,671 | |
 | Lowell Seida (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 23 | |
 | Connor VlaKancic (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 11 | |
| Total votes: 4,098,896 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Tammy Duckworth advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tammy Duckworth | 100.0 | 856,720 |
| Total votes: 856,720 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kathy Salvi | 30.2 | 216,007 |
 | Peggy Hubbard | 24.8 | 177,180 | |
 | Matthew Dubiel | 12.7 | 90,538 | |
| Casey Chlebek | 10.7 | 76,213 | |
 | Bobby Piton | 9.2 | 65,461 | |
 | Anthony Williams | 7.4 | 52,890 | |
| Jimmy Lee Tillman II | 5.1 | 36,342 | |
| Total votes: 714,631 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Maryann Mahlen (R)
- Eric Wallace (R)
- Allison Salinas (R)
- Rob Cruz (R)
- Lanette Hudson (R)
- Timothy Arview (R)
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020 (March 17 Republican primary)
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020 (March 17 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Illinois on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dick Durbin (D) | 54.9 | 3,278,930 |
 | Mark Curran (R) | 38.9 | 2,319,870 | |
 | Willie Wilson (Willie Wilson Party) | 4.0 | 237,699 | |
 | Danny Malouf (L) | 1.3 | 75,673 | |
 | David Black (G) | 1.0 | 56,711 | |
| Kevin Keely (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 10 | ||
| Lowell Seida (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 6 | |
| Albert Schaal (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 2 | ||
| Total votes: 5,968,901 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Patrick Feges (Independent)
- Chad Koppie (Constitution Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Dick Durbin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dick Durbin | 100.0 | 1,446,118 |
| Total votes: 1,446,118 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Curran | 41.6 | 205,747 |
| Peggy Hubbard | 22.9 | 113,189 | |
 | Robert Marshall | 15.3 | 75,561 | |
 | Tom Tarter | 14.7 | 73,009 | |
| Casey Chlebek | 5.6 | 27,655 | |
| Richard Mayers (Write-in) | 0.0 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 495,168 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Burak Agun (R)
- Dean Seppelfrick (R)
- Connor VlaKancic (R)
- Preston Nelson (R)
Campaign themes
2026
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2022
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Campaign website
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Economy Jobs, More Jobs, and More of Good Jobs Over the past 40 years, the United States has literally exported 8 million jobs and 50 thousand factories to foreign countries. All in the insensible and uncontrolled appetite for cheap labor and cheap markets. Literally entire industries disappeared from our country. As a result, the middle class lost major source of income from good jobs and was forced to accept mediocre menial jobs, often leading to serious financial family support issues resulting in family breakdowns and also in visible increase of crime. That is totally unacceptable, and we must make every reasonable effort to bring the jobs back and/or create new ones by utilizing our innovative potential and the newest technologies available such as robotics, AI, and quantum computing. At one time our industrial dominance was the envy of the entire world. Not anymore! We can definitely reverse this dangerous course if our government, in cooperation with the private sector, provides the necessary assistance and create suitable conditions to jump start brand new and modern industrial zones dedicated to very specific industrial/technological developments such as: AI, 5G, quantum computing, robotics and automation. Since some already exist on both the West and the East Coasts already, the Midwest should be an obvious target region for an accelerated development of such projects on a large scale. My goal is to make Illinois to be the Silicon Valley of the Midwest. One final note regarding jobs!. The admission of China into the World Trade has certainly led to a decrease in number and quality of jobs. Since 2001, export of US jobs has dramatically increased. Somebody at some point should have realized that 1,300 million of people entering the world job market would have detrimental consequences. It was a very serious mistake which has compounded the shrinkage of our jobs. Moreover, by allowing China to enter the world economic stage we created the perfect conditions and paved the way for stealing of intellectual property and exploitation of the non-tariff world order by a nation which does not follow any accepted norms of behavior. Uncontrolled National Debt Without any doubt, the subject of our huge and uncontrolled National Debt is avoided by many, even the most seasoned politicians. It is a very perilous topic and they would rather promise a train ride to the moon, and all kinds of money which they do not have. Currently, our National Debt stands at nearly 23 trillion dollars. In early 2009, it stood at 10, and in 2016 at 18 trillion. In just ten years we more than doubled our National Debt which we have accumulated as a country during the last 200 years. Our National Debt now outpaces our GDP percentage wise, and it now stands at 106%. That is totally unprecedented, and it has reached alarming proportions. Any sane person will admit that such conditions cannot last forever, and they will not cure our well-being as a prosperous country. We must act quickly and decisively to stop this run-away debt train. I think that the very first order of business, as unpopular it may be, now is the time to initiate a public debate about this issue and let the financial/economic experts to step in to offer specific solutions to cure the national scourge. As the United States Senator, I will fight for the comprehensive review of all entitlement programs to identify all culprits which contribute the most to our annual debt. I will fight to prescribe and enforce solutions to prevent inevitable economic nightmare. Taxes If one currently listens to what the Democratic party presidential candidates propose as tax policy to improve the economic well-being of our country, one can be totally confused at the magnitude of their plans for the solution of “How to steal from Paul to pay Peter.” That is exactly what they do. No one can deny that this impacts the middle class very seriously, since the middle class should be the key to our solution of improving the economy. Personally, it is hard even for me to judge how effective the current tax system is, if corporate giants such as Amazon have reported a profit maybe only once in their existence. It would seem reasonable to assume that if they report losses, they pay no taxes. Business expansion forever, without paying any taxes should not be allowed! Along the same lines, we must bring back to the US all expatriate income tax due from companies doing business abroad, by giving the companies a special onetime deduction. Despite serious efforts of economy minded Presidents such as the late President Reagan or President Trump, something indeed must be done, if our desire is the wish to expand our economy to ensure continued prosperity to our country. We must eliminate all existing loopholes in the tax system but above all, simplify the tax code. Currently for the 2019-2020, there are seven Federal Income Tax brackets, from the lowest 10% to the highest 37%. On the other hand, many of the presidential hopefuls are suggesting even taxes as high as 90% which leaves us on 10% away from the totally Marxist style state controlled economy. It is high time to look around the world for some possible alternative solutions. My desire is that I help generate a public debate which, with the assistance of experts, will result in an agreement on the right course. Again, I would favor a slow introduction of new programs without shock waves of adopting the final form too quickly. When looking around the world for examples of very successful countries with very high per capita GDP and also being the wealthiest, one will quickly notice that the country of Singapore has one of the highest GDP of $90,000 ($60,000 for the US) and at the same time enjoys one of the lowest tax rates in the world with 17% for corporate and 22% individual income tax rates. Needless to say, they were also number one in the PISA test scores for 2015. Although Singapore has only 6 million population as opposed to 330 million in the US, this example cannot be ignored. There are also many other countries which use effectively low tax rates to the benefit of their own economies. The idea of 17% corporate tax was floating around during the Reagan administration did not come to fruition, but the reduction of taxes he adopted was highly effective and it stimulated the US economy immensely. A hidden form of non-discrete taxation are also the rules and regulations with which our citizens and institutions are harassed every day to generate additional revenues for local, state or federal governments. We must fight to remove all such regulations when socialist-minded and willing executioners use their agenda out of the Alinsky’s playbook to find yet another expensive regulation to punish you for being a cooperative citizen. I do hope that President Trump during his 2nd term will double down on his efforts to remove all such regulations. The key to all of our tax reforms should remain in sight with our ultimate goal, which is to restore and expand the shrinking middle class of America. The wealth of every nation is always measured by the high percentage of the middle class. In the 50’s and 60’s we enjoyed a very healthy middle-class growth, and we must restore it now if we are to prosper as a country again. To that end, any lowering of our corporate taxes should always be mandated by the increase of employment, not otherwise. The bottom line is that if we wish to expand our economy, we should look very hard at lowering the tax rates rather than increasing them without the end in sight.
Emphasis on Seniors, Veterans, and the Young Generation For many decades the people of the United States and, for that matter, of the entire world, have worked very hard to adopt social programs from which all of us benefit today. As a country, the USA, has provided examples for many others to follow, and to be fair, we have learnt from others as well. It is therefore our responsibility to make every reasonable effort to maintain such high social standards. To maintain our social safety net, we must be very careful not to overspend to live beyond our limited capacities. After all, as the popular adage says, “the money does not grow on trees.” Currently, we are on board of a runaway train that is accelerating at a rapid pace when it comes to living beyond our means. We are adding to the unstoppable national debt to live today at the cost of our future generations. We must make every effort in our powers to reverse this dangerous trend by overhauling and re-examining many programs to eliminate wasteful spending, duplication and sometimes squander or even outright fraud. I think that it is almost criminal when our senior citizens and/or veterans are left in neglect and without sufficient social support. We should be vigilant and proactive to check on their well-being before it reaches scandalous levels. Similarly, our younger generations which enter the job market, must be supported as well. We have to ensure that young families can establish their families without worry about employment consequences. Therefore, we must mandate and guarantee them maternity leaves for extended period of time, as it is done in many countries of the world, with Europe at the forefront. Along the very same lines, each employer with 25 or more employees should provide the benefit of adequate health insurance coverage. It should be our solemn duty that this and the next generation of the workforce is protected at all costs, regardless of any prevailing infatuation with socialism, or any other “ism.” Before any attempts are made to save all, even those who have not yet stepped on our soil, it must remain our moral obligation to place an umbrella of protection in support over them during the most precious moments in their and in their family lives. It did not take long to realize that the highly acclaimed Obama Care program based on socialist ideas proved to be a trap for the poorest and the youngest who are now being punished if they do not join the plan, or find out later (in the execution of the plan) that their government mandated insurance is prohibitively expensive. They find now that they cannot afford the plan because of the astronomically high deductibles which many times exceeds $10,000 a year. Just remember that this is pure socialism at work in its final execution stage, which seemed very beautiful and appealing at first. Any new social program introduced should be very carefully examined and we should look into the private enterprises to underwrite the costs associated with such programs. This is our new and real challenge, our moral duty and obligation to our next generations if we want to maintain good living standards today and tomorrow for all of our citizens. Educational System Despite of our elite universities, generally, our education systems show many symptoms of structural deficiencies when comparing our test/achievement scores with many countries of the world. The 2015 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test average scores for mathematics, science and reading shows United States in the 31st place and the China is in the 10th. More importantly, the math scores only, puts the United States in the 39th place and the China is in the 6th place. The test scores for 2108 when released will be probably be quite similar if not worse. Does that really answer the obvious question – why is China dominating today the world industrial competition? If we do not improve our educational systems I am afraid in time we will lose the competitive advantage which we once held. Our educational system is in a dire status and it needs to be repaired and improved to compete more effectively not just domestically but primarily with the rest of the world. The delusionary policies of “No one is left behind” which sound so beautiful and so promising have resulted in its execution in a state of affairs where everybody is left behind. We must allow the private education to flourish to speed up the process. And yes, we must create a suitable environment for the selected few who exhibit an extraordinary intellectual propensity to be tutored within their own groups at their own momentum, otherwise, we are just wasting their enormous potential and talents. Also, we must stress the engineering curricula once again (before we reach the Mars this time), since today many an employer cannot find qualified technical personnel to work in the new advanced technologies. To be honest, not all jobs require university or college degrees, therefore, we must expand our vocational school training system with 1-year and/or 2-year job training programs for the most popular trades to allow our youth for a quick entry into the job market. Environmental Protection If you listen to the news media buzz today, you will learn that our civilization is doomed to extinct in ten years or maybe even sooner. Why, because of the man generated unsustainable CO2 emissions, which are they claim is at astronomical levels which leads to the global warming and to the inevitable death of the planet earth. Did these climate experts and/or alarmists bothered to verify that during the course of life on our planet, the earth’s climate went thru numerous cycles of warming and cooling, and most recently warming occurred in XV and XVIII centuries and cooling in in XVII and XIX centuries. No one can challenge the fact that during these periods of time all emissions were not made by the man’s activity but due other natural phenomena totally beyond the man’s control. Simply put, our earth’s climate goes thru such cycles and this time is no different. On the balance, it does not mean that we should not curb the CO2 emissions, but we must be very careful and cautious when addressing the issue since there is no magic bullet. Principally and under no circumstances we should not jeopardize our own job markets to solve the problems of the entire world. Moreover, let’s be realistic and look at the real culprits, e.g. China annually emitting nearly 10,000 tons of CO2 whereas the US emits half of that. And let’s be blunt, China has no desire to curb their jobs in their own polluting industries. In fact, when we ourselves eliminate environment sensitive jobs, China quickly moves in to fill the gap and create new jobs in their air polluting industries. Oh yes, they will quickly sign each and every international agreement calling for reductions of the emission levels. That is China for you – preaching the world one thing and doing yet something totally different. Not only that China has a total disregard for the air pollutions controls but during the last forty(40) years they managed also to pollute their own river systems. Moa Tse Tung in his young years could safely swim in the Yangtze river then, but one will dare to repeat the same feat today, since the Yangtze river has become literally a sewer system. This is what I was told by many local villagers during my trip to China some years ago. All of the well-meaning environmentalists should take a very close look at the world polluters to recognize the obvious, the United States, and Western Europe are the environmental leaders of the World, are they are very conscious and sensitive with respect to the environment controls with myriads of laws in the books to punish polluters. I find it ridiculous that we rush to close our coal mines and leave tens of thousands of people without any dignity for their work ethics of many a generation. Any planned reductions of jobs under any circumstances should always be phased in over a long period of time without disturbing the livelihood of the working people such is it currently implemented in Germany. The approach which we should be as follows – First, to create a new job, or find replacement for the job before you eliminate one. Let’s be very honest, if the environmentalists are really concerned about the issue of our environment, first and foremost, they should put the world on the notice to eliminate plastic packaging, bottles and other mass produced plastic utility items first to save the planet, since not just rivers, but also our oceans show the scourge of the plastic pollution which results in the destruction of the marine life. Save the planet yes, but first, save the United States. Let the others to do their own homework as well! Our mission is limited and we cannot save the entire world.
Immigration Today, the immigration issue is the most divisive and controversial topic in the US. Actually, is has been an ongoing controversy since 1924, when the first immigration laws were adopted by the US government. Today, this system is totally obsolete and unsuited for the modern immigration challenges. To effectively resolve this issue, first and foremost, we are in a very dire need, not just merely to tweak it, but to overhaul the entire 100-year old immigration system which we follow today. As a general guiding principle of the immigration policies, we must agree, that they should work in concert with and for the benefit of our economy. It is a very sensitive and challenging undertaking, since, currently the whole world is in the turmoil of migratory movements with over 250 million people worldwide on the move to find a new home. The utopian vision that we should lead or better yet, save the entire world from existing imminent dangers, simply put, it is unrealistic. We cannot save the entire world, but we should, in a controlled manner, adopt our immigration policies to serve our national interests and goals. If I were to suggest the first change we should adopt, it is to get rid of the illusionary ‘Visa Lottery’ program which invites immigration verification nightmare and seriously undermines our qualification criteria. The new immigration policies should be designed very carefully to allow for controlled and legal admissions of new immigrants. The new immigration laws should literally allow for managed recruitment service centers for new immigrants inside the participating countries. The applying immigrants should be very carefully screened to meet our pre-established criteria. The borders should be used only for the control of legal immigration. When correctly implemented, and when we utilized the most modern technologies to control our borders, the “physical wall” will become irrelevant in this exercise. Although, we all should agree, that we must be in control of our immigration quotas as required by our economic needs. Also, I believe that our goal should be first and foremost to recognize the fact that our neighboring countries, Mexico and Canada, should be treated in a preferential manner based on the nearly two century-old Monroe doctrine – “America for Americans”. No one should have a right to demand that we apply universally policies to the entire world when our own neighbors are first in line. The preferential treatment of our neighboring countries should also be adopted to our economic policies. Let’s be clear on one issue, if we adopted more cordial treatment of our southern countries over the last forty years instead of relying totally on the China card, we most probably would never need to go through the tariff wars and the economic and military threats we face from China today. The fact is that before we can absorb additional waves of migration, we must create economic conditions for such an outcome. Therefore, our first order of business is to create suitable economic conditions by bringing back the 50,000 factories exported to China and elsewhere. If we do, we will be on the way to better accommodation for our own citizens and for our new immigrants. Would our economy be able to absorb the additional millions of immigrants? Well, the facts are that the most recent stats show the United States has nearly 14% population of immigrants, Canada 22% and Australia 28%. Without any doubt, if other developed word countries did absorb higher percentages of immigrants, the United States can do the same. Most importantly, Lets first work very hard together with the President Trump to create better economic conditions and opportunities for the United States in the coming years. It can be done! Let’s make it happen to the satisfaction of us all! Military & World Power During the course of human history, one can observe the emergence of powerful states basically due to their military and economic power, which insured their survival for many years. In quite similar fashion, the United States, especially since the end of World War II, has become the dominant player on the world stage. To support our interests, we created a vast worldwide network of military bases. Currently, in addition to 1,100,000 soldiers in the contiguous United States, we deploy over 165,000 soldiers in more than 150 countries across the world to protect our national interests. Also, as world history shows, such state of affairs cannot last forever without straining the resources of the country, which in many cases leads to a collapse of the country’s power status. The United States is no different, and currently our worldwide military presence is most definitely impacting our available resources. The question is, how long can we afford to be the world policeman and what is the price we are willing to pay for such a privileged status. The easiest way to reduce the strain on our resources, is to reduce the military under command. Undoubtedly, we can pursue such course of action due to the fact our military is the most advanced technologically and as long as we are very successful in weaponizing each fighting soldier. We can do much more with a smaller force. But in the end, it seems that we must also alter our strategies of conflict resolution and of eliminating existing and new threats. A classic example is the development of new entrepreneurial military strategy of A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) where technological innovations create low cost solutions to engage our adversaries. Also, the use of drone technology should be exploited to its fullest potential. President Obama started to use drones very effectively to eliminate the Al-Qaeda threat, without the use of our ground forces. Such effective solutions can most definitely help us maintain our world power status. We must also push to the limits our intelligence and surveillance capabilities before we send new soldiers into faraway places. Finally, our interests and goals abroad can be achieved not just by keeping our soldiers in foreign lands, but by ‘conquering’ the countries of interest economically, and by offering them cooperation in a variety of non-military programs and soft diplomatic solutions. I believe that this is the most effective strategy before we attempt to “conquer and divide”. Declaration for Financial Independence When the future of our independence was at stake in 1776, our forefathers adopted the Declaration of Independence. Today, I think we find ourselves in somewhat similar situation where our global power and economic superiority is under stress by other dominant players on the world stage. In order to maintain the status of the world’s greatest power, which the United States has enjoyed for most of the 20th century, it is also undeniably important for us to maintain the status of the world’s greatest economic power. Perhaps, therefore, it is high time today to adopt a new declaration of independence – the National Declaration of Financial Independence. The purpose of such a national clarion call would be to ensure that the rest of the world still looks at the United States as a model not just for civic rule but also for economic leadership. Although there may be many ideas with regard to such a goal, curbing the National Debt should be our #1 national priority. Securing a dominant position of the US dollar, which it still enjoys in world commerce, is also key to our future and to our Financial Independence. Hopefully, we can still correct the wrongs of our recent past and put our course on a new trajectory to remain the world’s beacon of good governance. If we diligently and patiently implement the re-making of the American agenda, we will then indeed be well beyond the current phase of President Trump’s clarion call of today to “Make America Great Again,” and we will most definitely awake in the American people the pride and the spirit to “MAKE AMERICA PROUD AGAIN”[2] |
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| —Casey Chlebek's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
2020
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Footnotes
- ↑ Casey for Senate 2022, "About Me," accessed June 27, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Casey for Senate 2022, “Issues,” accessed June 19, 2022
