Defeated for governor last year, Darren Bailey sets his sights on Congress and a downstate GOP primary with Mike Bost
“I refuse to stand by while the radical left rips apart the very fabric of our society. Together, we must rise up and fight back against this assault on our freedoms,” he said. “We will not be silenced. We will not surrender. Together, we will take back our country and take back our voice.”
“Mike Bost is focused on delivering conservative results for southern Illinois and that’s why voters will reelect him,” NRCC spokesman Chris Gustafson said in a statement. Gustafson said Bailey got “blown out” by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker last November and “now he’s back seeking another political promotion.”
During his tenure in the legislature, a seat he was forced to give up in running for governor, Bailey was a member of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of far-right downstate Republican lawmakers. In the state legislature in 2019, he co-sponsored legislation to separate Chicago from the rest of the state, and during his run for governor he referred to the state’s largest city as a “hellhole” and an “unruly child.
Even before losing to Pritzker, Bailey had expressed interest in making a congressional bid against Bost as his next political move. And while he downplayed Trump’s support in the general election for governor, he renewed cultivating the former president’s backing, even going to Trump’s post-indictment speech at the Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on June 14 and saying “it was an honor to stand beside” him.
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