Pritzker has defended the constitutionality of the new law, saying it forced candidates to run in the primary and prevented “backroom deals” where “some small group of people in a smoke-filled room” decided who would run in the general election.

I always smirk when I hear normal people repeat the dumb stuff like above. They've flooded us with shitty tv shows, packed with high drama. So much so, that the idiots think these buzz phrases are real things, and repeat them and believe them on the regular. There definitely are backroom deals, and smoke filled rooms, but he's talking about his friends, not his enemies.