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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Politics
Mitchell Armentrout

Pritzker ties GOP challengers to Trump’s ‘big lie’ and other ‘crazy things’ ex-president says

Gov. J.B. Pritzker makes a campaign stop and shakes hands with constituents after a roundtable discussion about the November election at the Evanston home of Steven and Cynthia Franklin, Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2022. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

As he ramps up his reelection bid, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday took some of his sharpest shots yet at Republican challengers, accusing them of buying into “crazy” messages spread by former President Donald Trump, including false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

In one of Pritzker’s first public campaign appearances since formalizing his run for a second term last summer, the Democratic incumbent told a small group of north suburban supporters that anyone in the five-man race for the GOP nomination would send Illinois “backwards.”

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