It appears three Republican candidates in the primary for the newly drawn Democratic leaning 13th congressional district are positioning their campaigns for hard line conservative voters while another may be tailoring a message for the November election.
Read MoreAs polling indicates conservative Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) is pulling away from the rest of the GOP field, numerous Republicans say they’re concerned Bailey won’t be able to defeat billionaire Governor JB Pritzker in November.
Read MoreAfter we reported late Wednesday that Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin’s campaign was pulling its TV ads in downstate Illinois beginning next week, a picture of a campaign in “chaos” is beginning to emerge.
Read MoreSources confirm the campaign of Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who is running for the GOP nomination for Governor, has pulled all broadcast TV ads in downstate Illinois beginning next week.
Read MoreThe Republican race for U.S. Senate has been filled with extreme rhetoric at times, but little of it has cracked into the mainstream.
Read MorePolling firm Ogden & Fry released a detailed poll Monday laying out multiple questions on abortion.
Read MoreRadio host Dan Proft, who is running a PAC funded by billionaire Richard Uihlein, said he had a new poll for his organization showing Sen. Darren Bailey leading Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin by seven points.
Read MoreI had maybe ten texts after the debate from people wanting to know who I thought “won” the debate.
Read MoreWLS offered all five candidates who were physically present at the debate Thursday (Jesse Sullivan was remote after testing positive for COVID-19) the opportunity to speak with assembled media.
Read MoreRichard Irvin, the Aurora Mayor and presumed frontrunner in the GOP gubernatorial race, dodged attack after attack from competitors in the June 28 primary Thursday night in the first televised debate featuring all six Republican candidates.
Read MoreThere’s a new chapter being written in the battle for control of the state Democratic party.
Read MoreWith just five weeks to go to the June 28 primary, we take a quick look at five incumbents fighting for their political lives in hotly contested primaries.
Read MoreI’m a little bit of a skeptic about the value of debates.
Read MoreThe super tight lipped Irvin campaign released a poll yesterday showing themselves with a six point lead.
Read MorePresumed frontrunners in the Democratic and GOP primaries for Secretary of State are being accused by challengers of dodging televised debates.
Read MoreGovernor JB Pritzker’s campaign is out with a new ad today alleging some pretty heavy pay-to-play between billionaire Ken Griffin and Aurora Mayor and GOP candidate for Governor Richard Irvin.
Read MoreAfter watching both debates Tuesday, we had some thoughts.
Read MoreThe six candidates for the GOP nomination for governor squared off in two separate debates Tuesday night, and we followed along with both.
Read MoreThe general thinking of many Springfield or political types is that House Speaker Michael Madigan was likely bulletproof from wiretaps because there “was no way” he would be so reckless to talk about criminal activity on the phone.
Read MoreI stopped Irvin before he left the room and asked if he had a moment. He said “absolutely,” before a staffer cut him off, grabbing him by the shoulder saying “no, we can’t.”
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