“I’m a little disappointed your governor said I wasn’t welcome in Illinois,” DeSantis said in response to remarks made by Pritzker ahead of his arrival. “Because I seem to remember when he was locking down this state, he sent his family to live in my state and live in our freedom.”

Peoria Congressman Darin LaHood cracked a similar joke at Pritzker’s expense saying, “you know it’s a sign we’re having a good Lincoln Day when J.B. Pritzker is tweeting and crying that Ron DeSantis is not welcome in Illinois.” …

“I say to you this, decline is a choice, success is attainable and freedom is worth fighting for,” DeSantis said. “I’m proud of what we’ve done in Florida but I can tell you this, I have only begun to fight.”

[Ouch baby — very ouch. Besides acting like a huge douche canoe in declaring a sitting governor unwelcome in his state, Pritzker still hasn’t sufficiently explained why his family got to escape Pritzker’s lockdown policies by fleeing to Florida and Wisconsin while everyone else in Illinois had to lock down in place. DeSantis should visit Illinois more often, because the exposure of Pritzker’s hypocrisy clearly gets under his skin. — Ed]