
SPRINGFIELD — Conservative firebrand Jeanne Ives endorsed Darren Bailey for governor on Thursday, arguing the state senator from southern Illinois is the only Republican in the crowded GOP primary with a history of standing up to Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
“I know the Republican candidates running for governor. There are good men running for this office on the Republican side,” the former state representative from Wheaton said. “But when leadership was demanded against a one-man government in Pritzker, there was only a one-man response in Darren Bailey.