Trump-Endorsed Darren Bailey to Face Pritzker in Illinois Governor Election
Trump-Endorsed Darren Bailey on June 28 won the six-way Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary election. He will face Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, in the fall.
Bailey drew 57 percent of the vote as of 10:57 p.m. on Tuesday, easily defeating the other Republicans in the race.
A third-generation farmer and two-term state senator, Bailey runs on a conservative platform to fully free the state from COVID restrictions, protect the rights of the unborn, and support the Second Amendment.
A staunch critic of Pritzker’s COVID mandates, Bailey filed the state’s first lawsuit challenging the governor’s pandemic executive orders and was granted a temporary restraining order.
He has also long condemned the Chicago Democratic machine’s outsized influence on state politics. Having signed off a resolution to kick Chicago out of Illinois two years ago, Bailey now runs to save the largest midwestern city from what he calls destructive liberal ideas, according to his speeches on the campaign trail.
Just two days before the primary, former President Donald Trump endorsed Bailey at a rally for U.S. Rep. Mary Miller in Mendon, Ill. In return, Bailey voiced his support for a potential 2024 Trump presidential run.
Bailey received $9 million, the lion’s share of his campaign funds, from Republican billionaire Richard Uihlein, according to campaign filings maintained by the Illinois Board of Elections.
Bailey also got a boost from the Uihlein-supported independent expenditure committee “People Who Play By the Rules.” Under the law, such committees must act independently from candidates.
Uihlein gave $8 million to the committee, whose expenditures all went to communications (mailers, TV ads, digital ads, and so on) opposing one-time frontrunner Richard Irvin, according to committee filings with the state.
Meanwhile, according to multiple media outlets, the Pritzker-supported Democratic Governors Associations has spent tens of millions of independent dollars in the Republican
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