MENDON, Ill. — One of the Republican front runners for the gubernatorial primary race in Illinois has earned a potentially controversial endorsement this weekend.
During a rally at the fairgrounds in Mendon, Illinois Saturday, former President Donald Trump announced his “total endorsement” of Darren Bailey just three days before the vote is counted.
“Darren is just the man to take on and defeat one of the worst governors in America,” Trump said, referring to Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, who has been a constant critic of Trump and his MAGA movement.
According to Politico magazine, Bailey has likely benefited from recent attack ads run by the Pritzker campaign. The Illinois Governor and the Democratic Governors Association have spent $34 million on TV ads proclaiming Bailey’s conservatism as dangerous.
Of course, the endorsement would come as no issue to most Republicans voting in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary, but a wide range of polling data shows there are as many as 19 percent of registered Republican voters in the U.S. who view former President Trump with disapproval now that we’re seeing the revelations from the January 6th committee in Congress.
The committee, which Trump decries as “unselect” and “fake”, is trying to make the case that the former President lied to the American people about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and then tried to use that lie to spur on an attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
An image published in Politico shows Bailey shaking Trump’s hand during Saturday’s rally.
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