{"id":30311,"date":"2026-02-10T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=30311"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:54:39","slug":"more-listening-and-less-talking-darren-bailey-insists-results-will-be-different-in-second-run-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/30311-more-listening-and-less-talking-darren-bailey-insists-results-will-be-different-in-second-run-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;More Listening and Less Talking&#8217;: Darren Bailey Insists Results Will be Different In Second Run for Governor"},"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><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey leaning on running mate from Cook County to win over urban voters<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<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><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Republican state legislator Darren Bailey is trying to improve on his 2022 campaign for governor by taking a new approach to voters in the Chicago area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey is leaning heavily on his running mate from Cook County, Aaron Del Mar, to strike a different tone about issues facing Chicago \u2014 a city he called a \u201chellhole\u201d in 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey has echoed President Donald Trump\u2019s calls for Gov. JB Pritzker to be arrested and remains a Trump-aligned candidate.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey\u2019s policy theme for 2026 is lower taxes and auditing government spending, which he says is filled with wasteful spending and potential fraud.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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;\">The verdict on Darren Bailey\u2019s 2022 campaign for governor was decisive. The race was called in Gov. JB Pritzker\u2019s favor nearly immediately after polls closed, and Pritzker won a 12-point victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than two years later, Bailey lost a 2024 Republican primary race for the U.S. House to incumbent Rep. Mike Bost, of Murphysboro, by about three points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But with a new running mate and new strategy, Bailey, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/politics\/2022\/09\/14\/darren-bailey-releases-tax-returns\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wealthy farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Clay County who served in both the Illinois state Senate and House and rose to prominence by challenging pandemic mitigations, insists the results will be different this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur messaging needed tweaked, no doubt,\u201d Bailey told Capitol News Illinois in an interview. \u201cI think that\u2019s what\u2019s different about this time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/darren-bailey-enters-illinois-governors-race-pledging-new-approach-to-chicago-area\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">talking about Chicago in a different way<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/illinois-state-fair-2022-darren-bailey-jb-pritzker-il\/12139240\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">referred to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the state\u2019s largest city as a \u201chellhole\u201d in 2022 but said this time there will be \u201cmore listening and less talking,\u201d especially to the voters in Chicago and the suburbs who helped deliver Pritzker an easy victory four years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Bailey said he also thinks many of the same issues he campaigned on in 2022 \u2014 crime in Chicago and high taxes across the state \u2014 will resonate with voters more in 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s the second GOP candidate for governor to sit for Capitol News Illinois\u2019 election <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/podcasts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">podcast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series. Capitol News Illinois will publish a feature and full interview with each of the four GOP governor candidates in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/conservative-policy-wonk-ted-dabrowski-gets-off-sidelines-with-run-for-governor\/\"><b>Conservative policy wonk Ted Dabrowski gets off sidelines with run for governor<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Still the favorite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/politics-3\/wgn-emerson-poll-january-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent poll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by WGN and Emerson College found 34% of GOP primary voters planned to support Bailey. While 46% of voters were undecided, no other candidate cracked 10%. Bailey received 57% of the vote in the primary four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey isn\u2019t the fundraising leader, however, as researcher Ted Dabrowski and video gambling mogul Rick Heidner ended 2025 each with more than $1 million on hand. Bailey had about $35,000 in his coffers to end the year but has raised $81,500 from contributions of at least $1,000 since Jan. 1, financial disclosure reports showed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His GOP opponents have also expressed doubts that he can beat Pritzker on the second try. Dabrowski told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/01\/20\/ted-dabrowski-defends-tv-ad-pritzker-communist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago Tribune Editorial Board<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last month he is a better candidate than Bailey because he is from Cook County and Bailey is a downstate farmer who struggled to resonate in the Chicago area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey argued he has an advantage as the only candidate in the race from outside Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese other candidates aren\u2019t connected at all, don\u2019t know the problems of rural Illinois, and so that\u2019s where I come in,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cSo you take this partnership of someone who stood for rural Illinois for going on almost eight years now, and someone who knows the business and the politics of Chicago and Cook County, merge that together and I think we\u2019re going to make a wonderful team and actually represent everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chicago strategy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey is banking heavily on his running mate, Cook County Republican Party Chair Aaron Del Mar, who hails from northwest suburban Palatine, to help the campaign take a new approach in the Chicago area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe is a Cook County businessperson; he has been immersed in that environment,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cSo what he\u2019s already lent to me, as far as advice and what I would call expertise, I think, is amazing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey received just 15.5% of the vote in Chicago and 32% in the Cook County suburbs in 2022. He wasn\u2019t absent from Chicago, as he frequently held news conferences highlighting public safety issues in the city and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/elections\/2022\/9\/13\/23351525\/hellhole-republican-darren-bailey-chicago-john-hancock-center-north-side-downstate-pritzker-governor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lived in one of the city\u2019s most prominent skyscrapers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This time around, he said he has a gameplan to campaign in each ward throughout the city and other areas that were \u201coverlooked, missed, didn\u2019t know about in 2022.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Conservative credentials<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Bailey is softening his tone in northeast Illinois, he isn\u2019t moderating his positions in a primary where each candidate has sought to position themselves as the most conservative candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey was endorsed in 2022 at a rally in Adams County by former President Donald Trump, whose first term had ended by then, and has said this year he still welcomes the president\u2019s endorsement. He\u2019s even proposed establishing an Illinois Department of Government Efficiency \u2014 a spinoff from Trump\u2019s idea that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fizzled out<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the end of 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/bailey-proposes-illinois-doge-as-republican-governors-race-focuses-on-spending\/\"><b>Bailey proposes \u2018Illinois DOGE\u2019 as Republican governor\u2019s race focuses on spending<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s also mirrored some of Trump\u2019s rhetoric, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xWkTGbc7bIk?si=TJpEo3gNF0-ag3pQ&amp;t=3839\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saying at a recent event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that he \u201cwould love to see JB Pritzker arrested because of tyranny or a constitutional felony.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/as-trump-says-pritzker-should-be-in-jail-illinois-governor-taunts-come-and-get-me\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump himself suggested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in October that Pritzker \u201cshould be in jail.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey told Capitol News Illinois that \u201cPritzker has certainly crossed the line with his rhetoric\u201d and \u201cwho knows where this is going to go if JB continues to stand in defiance and harm the people of Illinois.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are some small areas where Bailey has staked out an opinion different than Trump\u2019s. During an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3JKH9By-ttM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">August interview with KSDK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, Bailey said immigration agents wearing masks was \u201cconcerning\u201d and if he were governor, \u201cthere would be no one wearing masks.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey also said he \u201cwill not waiver\u201d in his support for gun rights after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-you-cant-have-guns-you-cant-walk-in-with-guns-trump-says-of-alex-pretti-killing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump said,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cYou can\u2019t have guns; you can\u2019t walk in with guns\u201d in response to the Border Patrol shooting and killing protestor Alex Pretti, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/bgbcr72ir1A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lawful gun owner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s always a lot to unpack and understand in a comment and in a statement,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cAnd sometimes we see President Trump walk back those statements. Maybe he says something that he doesn\u2019t understand the full context of but, you know, I\u2019m a very principled person with my beliefs, and especially with the Second Amendment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Illinois issues<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This time around, Bailey\u2019s campaign is placing a tighter focus on state spending. He wants to audit all areas of state finances to find money that he believes is being wasted to cut state spending.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s also called for capping annual property tax rates to not exceed a person\u2019s mortgage rate. The state doesn\u2019t levy property taxes \u2014 a function of local governments. Property taxes are a primary funding source for schools, but Bailey said he expects the audits will free up enough money to boost funding from the state for schools. Bailey also said reducing unfunded mandates for schools will lower education costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey said the state\u2019s current evidence-based funding model for K-12 schools is also not working. While many schools remain inadequately funded under the formula, Bailey said test scores that show many students fail to master subjects at their grade level are further proof the state needs to rethink its approach to education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe need to empower local school boards, local communities,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to allow them to educate their children as they believe that they should in local communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More broadly, Bailey is pledging to lower taxes but has not specified how. He also said the state must first give people tax relief and then look at what priorities should be funded and how.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should Bailey find his way to the governor\u2019s office, he will almost certainly have to work with a supermajority of Democrats in the legislature. He argued he can find success in that environment because of relationships he had during his four years in the General Assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy door\u2019s always open &#8230; that table in the governor\u2019s office will be available,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cThere will be seats.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenden Moore contributed.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/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. 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