CHICAGO — Politicians fanned out across the state on the final weekend of the 2022 general election campaign, led by President Joe Biden who spoke in Joliet on Saturday amid concerns that a Republican surge on Election Day could cost Democrats control of both Illinois’ political agenda and Congress.
Biden’s decision to visit what has been a reliably blue state, along with a scheduled trip to Chicago by Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, underscored the belief that races across the ballot have tightened ahead of Tuesday’s election.
On Saturday, Biden campaigned for two-term Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville in Joliet, Gov. J.B. Pritzker stumped for fellow Democrats in Arlington Heights and Gurnee, and Republican governor candidate Darren Bailey made stops in Bloomington and Rock Island, all of them urging supporters to show up at the polls after campaigns high on invective and emotion.
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