I’ve been very clear since the beginning of the campaign that I believe that we need to fix the taxation system in our state. We have a very unfair, regressive tax system. That’s just unfair. So from the very beginning I campaigned on it. People understood what I stood for.

I’ve talked about legalizing marijuana, I’m in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana. So that’s another source of revenue. As you know, the Supreme Court ruled that sports betting can be allowed. So that’s something, we could look at expanding gaming in the state.

So those are all revenue, but I don’t want you to focus all on revenue, because balancing the budget is going to require us to bring efficiencies to state government and to grow jobs in the state.

You spent a literal fortune on your race, including $7 million bankrolling Democratic Statehouse races. You won by double digits. Could you have done it for less?

Where were you earlier on? Maybe we could have saved money!

Not really. Remember, what we were trying to do, it wasn’t just about my race. It really was about winning for Democrats across the state.

And so one of the things — if you look at how we ran this race, I spent a lot of time in southern Illinois and central Illinois. It was really important to me to travel around the state, to listen to people across the state, and as a result we did better in downstate Illinois than Democrats have done in an awfully long time. And so did the rest of the Democratic ticket.

Do you think there’s a lesson here for the national Democratic Party?

We did do very well, and I think we did well for two reasons. We recruited hundreds of candidates to run for county board races in places where Democrats haven’t run for a long time. This is a lesson, I must say, that I learned from the Ralph Northam race in Virginia and Terry McAuliffe and his efforts. They made sure that Democrats had candidates in every state representative race.