CHICAGO — Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey, who faced bipartisan criticism for declaring that Holocaust deaths during World War II paled in comparison with lives lost through abortion, contends Jewish community leaders have told him he was right.
Bailey’s campaign did not respond to a request for the identities of the Jewish religious leaders who he said agreed with his comparison of abortion to the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews.
“The Jewish community themselves have told me that I’m right,” Bailey, a state senator and farmer from downstate Xenia told WSPY-FM of Plano during a weekend visit to the Kendall County Fair in Yorkville.
