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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Rich Miller

Support for Illinois’ 2019 gas tax hike could come back to haunt Republicans

Gas price is seen at a Mobil gas station in Vernon Hills on March 2021. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

“We’re not the party of Trump,” Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie told an interviewer a couple of months ago. “I’m in the Republican Party and the party of Lincoln. And at the end of the day, the important thing is that we’re standing up for ideas and ideals and not a personality. And that is what the Republican Party has been about for decades, and what I believe we’re going to be going forward.”

At least as far as the Illinois governor’s race goes, that now seems less likely.

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