GOP nominee Darren Bailey blasts Gov. J.B. Pritzker as out-of-touch billionaire while Pritzker says most Illinoisans don't support Bailey's conservative politics.
With Darren Bailey’s nomination as the Republican candidate for governor to challenge Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois voters will have a choice for state chief executive this fall between candidates representing the opposites of a chasmic political ideological divide.
Bailey’s victory was assisted by Pritzker and the Pritzker-backed Democratic Governors Association, with millions of dollars in ads and mailers asking Republicans if the downstate state senator was “too conservative for Illinois.” Now, for the general election campaign, Pritzker and the DGA will flood voters with the slogan along with Bailey’s ties to Trump.
Bailey has vowed to repeal taxpayer funded abortions and reinstate the parental notification law and he has been sharply critical of Pritzker’s vow to make the state a haven for reproductive rights for women across the country. The lawmaker from downstate Xenia also has expressed opposition to gay and transgender rights and has complained of a “woke, liberal agenda” that includes indoctrinating children about sex.
Bailey, who had, like Trump, appealed to disaffected conservative voters who felt government had forgot them, said on Tuesday night, “Tonight, your voices were finally heard — voices of working families, parents, taxpayers, law enforcement and everyday citizens. Voices from the farms, the suburbs, the city of Chicago.”Bailey was assisted in his win by $17.1 million from ultra-conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein, who owns the ULINE office supply business.
As much as it was a Bailey victory, it was also an ignominious defeat for the state’s Republican establishment, which lined up behind Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin and Ken Griffin’s $50 million financial investment in him and a slate of statewide candidates. In addition to Irvin’s loss, the slate’s candidates in competitive primaries for attorney general and secretary of state also were defeated.
But Irvin’s focus on fighting crime — an issue pushed by Griffin — was not a top concern of Republican voters. And the ads also portrayed Irvin as having a hard- bullying image that failed to demonstrate any empathy the candidate had for problems that concerned voters, such as inflation.
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