{"id":19291,"date":"2025-09-25T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:03:41","slug":"bailey-officially-kicks-off-second-run-for-governor-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/19291-bailey-officially-kicks-off-second-run-for-governor-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Officially Kicks Off Second Run for Governor Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BEN SZALINSKI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BLOOMINGTON \u2014 Darren Bailey\u2019s second campaign for governor will take a different approach to Chicago and its suburbs following his unsuccessful 2022 bid, the downstate farmer and former Republican state lawmaker told supporters Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis journey is going to look different than it did four years ago,\u201d Bailey said at the second leg of a three-stop campaign kickoff tour in Bloomington. \u201cWe&#8217;re out to win. We&#8217;re on a mission.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey began the campaign in downstate Carterville before taking a helicopter owned and piloted by his son to Bloomington, then departing for his opening rally in Oak Brook later in the evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey, who called Chicago a \u201chellhole\u201d four years ago, is emphasizing that his campaign will focus more on the city and its suburbs than in 2022. He chose Cook County Republican Party Chair Aaron Del Mar is his running mate, and his campaign logo now includes the skyline of Chicago. Bailey told reporters he believes voters in the Chicago area are more dissatisfied with Gov. JB Pritzker than in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe people in Cook County, in Chicago are affected much more, I believe, than they were, you know, four years ago,\u201d Bailey told reporters. \u201cSo staying on, you know, the message is really pretty simple and pretty obvious. I mean, taxes are too high. Opportunity doesn&#8217;t exist. Our children are moving out of the state, and people just simply can&#8217;t afford to be able to live and work here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey argued he and Del Mar can relate more to an average person\u2019s economic struggles than Pritzker \u2014 their billionaire opponent if they win the March 17 primary. They said affordability will be their top issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey pointed to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/press-releases\/lincoln-poll-pritzkers-approval-rating-turns-negative-for-first-time\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">poll last month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by a conservative policy organization that showed Pritzker\u2019s approval rating below 50% for the first time. He said he believes there\u2019s growing momentum for a Republican candidate, despite Pritzker winning the past two elections by double digits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe climate here in Illinois is a lot more obvious and conducive than it was three and four years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople have woke up and they&#8217;ve realized that, \u2018wow, why did we just go through these last three years?\u2019 And that they&#8217;re tired of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After losing to Pritzker, Bailey lost a congressional primary in 2024. Democrats didn\u2019t show any disappointment in seeing him on the ticket again. Illinois Democratic County Chairs\u2019 Association President Mark Guethle said in a statement Bailey\u2019s decision to run again is \u201cfine by us!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A new running mate<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey said he had not been planning to run for governor until a few weeks ago. Friends encouraged him to consider picking Del Mar as his running mate, he said, despite the pair\u2019s history of disagreements. They met earlier this month to iron out their differences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe put it aside; we let the bygones be bygones,\u201d Del Mar said. \u201cAnd we came out and we said we&#8217;re going to run together as a team. We&#8217;re going to bring everybody from the southern area, from the country. We&#8217;re going to bring everybody from the north.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Del Mar has long been active in suburban Republican politics and was McHenry County businessman Gary Rabine\u2019s running mate in the 2022 GOP primary for governor. He told Bailey\u2019s supporters on Thursday that he had been planning to run for governor himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey\u2019s 2022 running mate was Stephanie Trussell, a DuPage County resident and conservative radio host.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Who is Darren Bailey<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/elections\/2022\/9\/14\/23354150\/downstate-republican-darren-bailey-tax-returns-election-governor-farm-subsidy-pritzker\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">owns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and operates a more than 12,000-acre farm in Clay County south of Effingham. He\u2019s made the farmer lifestyle a pillar of his statewide campaigns as he often discusses learning the values of hard work and family from the farm. In 2022, Bailey ran a TV ad about building his business by working with his hands. It drew a contrast to Pritzker who inherited wealth, though Pritzker also had a long philanthropic and business career before becoming governor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was first elected to the Illinois House in 2018, but his political profile exploded in 2020 after he filed lawsuits challenging Illinois\u2019 stay-at-home and mask orders in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuits helped lionize Bailey among Illinois conservatives who believed the public health restrictions were illegal for the governor to impose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey won a race for Illinois Senate in 2020 and then launched his 2022 campaign for governor hoping to capitalize on his growing reputation as the most vocal opponent to pandemic mitigations in the legislature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Bailey\u2019s past results<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey cruised to victory in the 2022 Republican primary with 57% of the vote in a field of six candidates. He trounced the favored candidate of establishment Republicans, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who also had a fundraising advantage over Bailey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Irvin struggled to articulate his positions on issues while Bailey appealed to conservative voters. Some of that appeal came with the help of Pritzker\u2019s campaign, who, along with the Democratic Governors Association, ran TV ads attacking Bailey during the primary as \u201ctoo conservative\u201d for Illinois. The ads boosted Bailey\u2019s conservative credentials in the partisan contest, helping Bailey win 100 of 102 counties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He struggled to gain traction in the general election against Pritzker, though.\u00a0 Bailey&#8217;s tough-on-crime message failed to land with voters and Pritzker cruised to a 13-point victory that was called within minutes of the polls closing. Bailey won 42% of the vote, including just 24% of Cook County voters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey came back to the campaign trail in 2024 and billed himself as a more conservative alternative to Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost in the 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Congressional District across southern Illinois. Bost was an ally of President Donald Trump, who endorsed Bost over Bailey, despite endorsing Bailey\u2019s candidacy for governor. Bailey came up about 2,700 votes short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey told reporters on Thursday he has not spoken with Trump but would consider seeking his endorsement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey joins the Republican primary field of DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, conservative researcher Ted Dabrowski and Lake Forest businessman Joe Severino.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.\u00a0 BLOOMINGTON \u2014 Darren Bailey\u2019s second campaign for governor will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bailey Officially Kicks Off Second Run for Governor Thursday - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/19291-bailey-officially-kicks-off-second-run-for-governor-thursday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bailey Officially Kicks Off Second Run for Governor Thursday - 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