The President's News Conference
10/19/1976
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The system is good.
I think we're going to win Florida and, from what you all tell me, we're going to win Illinois.
Your factories in Illinois are beginning to hum, and they're going to be producing more and more and more in the months ahead.
I think agriculture in Illinois, as well as elsewhere, is bound to be prosperous.