As expected, and as discussed yesterday, Darren Bailey, Trump’s endorsee for governor in IL, ran away from the pack in the primary race. Bailey got 57% of the vote in a four way race. The GOPe candidate ran a distant third—a total humiliation, both financially and electorally, for RINOs.
Overall, it looks like it was a good night for the conservative grass roots in IL. The GOPe was trying to redistrict Mary Miller, another strong conservative and Trump endorsee, out of Congress. However, Miller handily defeated GOPe preference and incumbent Rodney Davis, 58-42. NBC explains:
Miller’s victory marked another win for former President Donald Trump, as well, who backed her as part of his effort to oust several incumbent Republicans deemed insufficiently loyal. Davis ran afoul of Trump by supporting the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. Davis supported the never-chartered independent commission, not the House select committee now probing the Capitol attack, which held its sixth public hearing Tuesday.
IL may look Deep Blue on Presidential election maps, but all these seats matter. Trump is on a roll.
Rodney was my representative. He’s been a squish RINO for a while. Too bad, so sad, to see him go. But I’m sure he’ll be alright and he probably already has a nicely compensated gig lined up somewhere.
Although NYS is an even-taller order than IL right now, was glad to see Trump refrain from endorsing Andrew Giuliani, simply out of some sense of family relationship or returning the favor. This allows Zeldin, even without the endorsement, to point to those Trump admin policies, ever more popular in retrospect with NY grassroots conservatives, that Zeldin is on record supporting while in Congress as sort of a "compare and contrast" with the current disaster that is Hochul/Biden.