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Opposition hardens against Michael Madigan's reelection as Illinois House speaker Rick Pearson A group of 19 House Democrats hardened their opposition against veteran Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s reelection to the post, issuing a letter to colleagues saying the Democratic caucus needs to “come together” on an alternative to lead them in January. But the “Dear Colleagues” letter issued Saturday by the Madigan dissidents stopped short of recommending a replacement when the new House is inaugurated Jan. 13 with an anticipated 73 Democratic members. Madigan, the nati...

Updated 4:34 PM ET, Thu December 3, 2020 Illinois Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, D-Chicago, watches the proceedings from the Speaker's platform during the spring legislative session at the Bank of Springfield Center Friday, May 22, 2020. (CNN) Illinois State House Speaker Mike Madigan has held his post almost continually since he first won it in 1983. He represents one of the last vestiges of the old party boss system -- a man not terribly well-known outside of the city of Chicago but someone who, arguably, wields more influence than any other single figure in this massive Midwestern s...

President. not this republican party. joining me this evening, clair mccaskill a former democratic senator from missouri, knows a little bit about down state politics. charley sykes another midwesterner. msnbc contributor and editor at large. i love it. i got missouri, illinois, and wisconsin all represented right here. the tri-state powerhouse. rick pearson, let me start with you. look, it's -- is there a case where do we over rate the president's chances because of how we underrated it? and i say we. the general political class. are we all over rating the president's chances because of what ...

Rich donors upset with donors on the gold coast, not having a handle on it. four, black elites and ministers bought off by rahm and daley before rahm who are catching hell, frankly, from their constituents. then last, but not least, you have the police. who are upset. you never want to be on the wrong side of the police because the public supports the police over any mayor. so those five constituencies are all angry at rahm. he has no -- he has no longer any governing legitimacy. >> thank you to rick pearson in chicago and joy-ann. still to come, justice sc l scalia. for the price of 10. tha...

Case. joining me now from chicago, the man you want to talk to when you talk chicago politics, rick pearson, political reporter foretfor the "chicago tribune." do you think emanuel will survive it? >> i don't think anybody in chicago truly expects the mayor is going to resign. everybody knows rahm emanuel. we're also talking about emanuel knowing that he's got 3 1/2 years left in his term. he knows that oftentimes politics can be short attention span theater. but certainly he's been embarrassed in ways that i'm sure he could not imagine, the fact of having that department of justice investigat...