Winning the right to take over Pritzker’s first term, Bailey casually won a six-man qualifier. He sent Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who was the de facto candidate for the GOP Foundation with $ 50 million in funding from billionaire Ken Griffin. With 85% of state constituencies reporting, according to unofficial totals, Xenia’s Bailey won with 57% of the vote. They were followed by St. Petersburg businessman Jesse Sullivan with 16%, Irvin with 16%, Bull Valley businessman Gary Rabine with 6%, former Waterloo Senator Paul Schimpf with 4% and Hazel Crest lawyer Max Solomon with 1%. “Thank God we did it and we will do it again,” Bailey told the Effingham State Citizens’ Center, where he predicted victory in the November 8 general election. “Tonight our movement sent a clear message to the established and political elite “They will not ignore us.” Bailey said the Republican Party would unite behind him in the general election against Pritzker, whom he attacked as “out of touch, a trust fund, an elitist billionaire.” “We believe in this movement. We believe in the people of Illinois and together we will get Illinois back on track. “It will happen, friends,” Bailey said. “Illinois is our home. “These elections are about our future and this campaign is our struggle.” Speaking to supporters at a craft brewery in St. Petersburg, Sullivan said of Bailey: “If I have to lose, I want to lose to a man of faith. “I want to lose to a man who will bring these conservative values to Illinois.” “Now it’s all our job to be behind Darren and make sure (we) go and try to beat JB Pritzker in this general election,” Sullivan said. Tuesday’s vote led to a lengthy primary race between many issues – Pritzker’s response to the pandemic, sporadic outbreaks of violent gun crime in Chicago and suburbs, political unrest, a turbulent national economy and inflation. gas and food prices and, most recently, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that revoked the right to an abortion without undue state intervention. Bailey saw his candidacy grow among Republicans from its roots in the state’s rural evangelical populism, and sought to address disgruntled voters who say they feel neglected and see an Illinois government led by Democrats. urban policies and culture in conservative areas. It was similar to Trump’s response to state Republicans and helped Bailey win a belated approval from Trump last weekend. Bailey actively flirted with Trump’s support, and when asked if there was any light between the former president and himself, he replied: “No.” After the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising, Bailey tweeted that Republicans “must defend our Republican president and resist years of incessant personal and political attack against him by an unknown Democratic party led by a few nominees.” His victory was supported by more than $ 40 million in ads by Pritzker and the Pritzker-backed Association Democratic Governors, which published ads attacking Irvin and describing Bailey as “too conservative for Illinois.” These ads were combined with ads led by Bailey and an allied Independent Expenditure Policy Committee that received a total of $ 17.1 million from another billionaire, the super-conservative mega donor Richard Uihlein. Richard Irvin, Aurora Mayor and Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, at Aurora headquarters on June 28, 2022. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune) Irwin acknowledged defeat, perhaps the most costly political collapse in state history, with an early concession speech at Aurora headquarters where he reiterated many of his campaign themes while continuing to complain about Pritzker’s involvement in his primary. GOP. “Tonight, JB Pritzker won the Republican primary for governor here in Illinois. “He spent a historic amount of money to choose his own Republican opponent in the general election,” Irvin said. “Listen, I wish Darren Bailey well as he goes into the general election. I wish him well. And listen, I hope the governor is wrong in his assessment that he can easily defeat the opponent who paid tens of millions of dollars to face. “But if this governor is right and if he prevails easily, we as citizens must rise up.” Pritzker, holding what he called the “start” for the general election, revealed the issue of the autumn election campaign, tearing Bailey over because he received Trump’s approval last weekend in a rural county near Quincy. “A few days ago, Donald Trump came to our state and did his best – he threw bile on the ground and I hope he took root in our land and proudly on his side was the Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, Darren Mann. “, Said the governor. “Let me be clear, someone who seeks and accepts the support of a racist, half-hearted, homophobic, xenophobic, twice ousted former president is not worth approaching the highest office of the state.” Pritzker also attacked Bailey’s efforts to play regional politics with his Chicago attacks, calling it a “cheap trick” and saying that anyone who wants to be in the top position of the state must “love the 13 million people who live here.” And in a covert break in his opponent’s roots, Pritzker said, “and for those who need a reminder, Illinois fought the Union in the Civil War.” Governor JB Pritzker hosts a pre-election luncheon at Manny’s Deli in the South Loop on June 28, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) [ [Live results] Election 2022 in Illinois] By far the most conservative of the GOP top candidates, Bailey was an outspoken critic of Pritzker’s COVID-19 mitigation strategies. He even went to court to challenge them, although his court battles were ultimately unsuccessful. His fight against mitigation, against Pritzker was symbolized when he was thrown from the floor of the Illinois House in May 2020 because he refused to wear the required mask. He returned in disguise the next day, although his objections to the governor’s executive orders fueled his rhetoric. A sportsman who speaks from the south, Bailey runs a wealthy family farming business, and throughout his campaign he quoted a daily Bible quote to his supporters on social media as he crossed the state. Railings against Chicago as “hell” and Pritzker and the Democrats‘ By enshrining the right to abortion in state law, Bailey opposes abortion with the exception of saving the mother’s life and opposes what he calls “catechism” of children of the same sex and LGBTQ. He is also opposed to the gun regulation and has advocated repealing the state gun gun identity law. The billionaire governor’s Pritzker and DGA, which is financially backed by the billionaire governor, spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising in the GOP primary – giving Bailey a backlash among conservative Republicans, calling him “too conservative” for Ill. At the same time, Pritzker and DGA attacked GOP’s best-funded opponent, Irvin, believing that Bailey was easier to beat in the fall. Irvin’s candidacy was backed by $ 50 million from Citadel hedge fund founder and CEO Ken Griffin, a political foe of Pritzker who spent millions in previous battles with the governor. Griffin, who recently announced he was moving the Citadel from Chicago to Florida, spoke of crime in the city and accused Pritzker of lack of accountability. The fight against crime became the main theme of the Aurora mayor’s campaign, although issues such as inflation and the economy weighed heavily on voters. The announcement of Griffin’s decision to relocate the Acropolis also brought with it the political perspective that had thrown in the towel on Irwin’s candidacy – as well as the funding of future disputes with Pritzker. As questions about Irwin’s victory prospects grew, some GOP support turned to Sullivan, who ran for office for the first time and accused his opponents of being professional politicians as a white candidate based on religious ideology. [ View GOP governor’s race results here ] The 2022 edition of the Republican race for governor began in February last year when Schimpf, a former senator, began his bid from his Waterloo headquarters, south of St. Louis. A conservative, Schimpf demonstrated a realistic view of what a Republican governor could do with an overwhelmingly democratic legislature. However, despite his realistic qualities, he rarely promoted his military legal work, which included being the main liaison for the trial of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. And although it was the first, Schimpf’s candidacy failed to generate significant support and, equally important, campaign money. One week after Simbf announced, Bailey became the second Republican with ties to the legislature to run. Demonstrating contempt for “elite” politics in both parties, Bailey played with rural discontent as a member of a group of Republican Conservative lawmakers known as the “Eastern Bloc” who held populist rallies calling for the state to “reopen” its operations. pandemic, denounced Chicago’s influence and argued that Illinois should be divided so that Chicago would be its own state. One month later, Rabine, who turned his family’s paving company into a multimillion-dollar business services group, announced his candidacy. But Rabin faced …
