“MAGA Extremist” Wins IL Gov Primary With Dem Help

The New York Times reports:

Republican voters in Illinois nominated a conservative hard-liner for governor on Tuesday, lifting State Senator Darren Bailey out from a bruising and costly primary that saw spending from three dueling billionaires.

The Illinois race is the most expensive example yet of a high-risk 2022 Democratic strategy of injecting money into Republican primaries to help more extreme G.O.P. candidates in the hopes that Democrats will face weaker general-election opponents.

In the evening’s marquee contest, Democrats welcomed Mr. Bailey, the newly minted Republican nominee for Illinois governor, to the general election by tagging the opponent they had helped engineer as a “MAGA extremist.”

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In Illinois, Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker ran ads elevating Darren Bailey, a Republican they’re betting is too extreme to win a general election. https://t.co/gTfgM8AR8R

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