
Darren Bailey was clearly Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s chosen Republican candidate for governor, but on Wednesday the Democratic governor launched into his new emphasis, that the downstate farmer is “Donald Trump’s candidate for governor.”
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times the morning after the primary, the Chicago Democrat appeared to have no regrets in boosting a far-right GOP candidate for governor or qualms about widespread expectations that Pritzker again will self-fund his own campaign to record levels.