MENDON, Illinois – Former President Donald Trump used a rally in rural downtown Illinois on Saturday night to support Darren Bailey in nominating Republicans for governor in Tuesday’s primary election, as he also backed U.S. Representative Mary Miller and took a winning lap for the decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn Rowe against Wade.
“Darren is a farmer, he’s a fighter, and he was an outstanding warrior in the Illinois U.S. Senate, where he’s fully, fully respected by all of them,” Trump told a crowd of thousands at the Adams County Fair near Quincy.
“He will deal with the violent crime that is engulfing our Democrat-run cities and restoring the greatness of Illinois. Darren has my full and complete approval, “Trump said, setting the first term to re-elect Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker,” one of America’s worst governors. “
Bailey, an ardent supporter of Trump who is actively seeking the former president’s endorsement as a cornerstone of success in the Republican Party’s six-party primary, said he would work to get Illinois to welcome Trump’s new White House bid in 2024.
“Here is the deal. I will not lie to anyone and I will not leave anything unnoticed. And when I see him, I’ll call him, “Bailey said after Trump told the story of Bailey pulling improperly pulled hair from the former president’s head during a photo shoot before the rally.
“We have work to do here in Illinois, friends,” Bailey said. “I promised President Trump that in 2024, Illinois would release the red carpet for him because Illinois would be ready for President Trump.
Trump lost Illinois by 17% of the vote in his winning presidential candidacy in 2016 and his losing re-election in 2020.
Trump, who often delays approvals unless he is sure of a candidate’s victory, predicts that Bailey “will win a very big primary and continue and win the election.”
Bailey, Trump’s 2020 presidential delegate, comes from the lower Illinois region, where voters strongly supported the former president, and he sought to cultivate their support in his candidacy for governor as a base of support that is gradually growing across the state.
He is also Pritzker’s most outspoken critic, starting with lawsuits – ultimately unsuccessful – that tried to block orders to mitigate the Democratic governor’s pandemic while encouraging an evangelical rural populist candidacy that condemned cultural policy. urban Chicago.
Bailey is in the field of candidates, which includes Aurora Mayor Richard Irwin, St. Petersburg investor Jesse Sullivan, Bull Valley businessman Gary Rabin, former Water Senator Paul Schimpf of Waterloo and Hazel Cross lawyer Max Solomon.
Trump’s visit was aimed at boosting Miller’s turnout, whose freshman term was marred by controversy, in a five-term run by Republican Rodney Davis in the recently-drawn 15th Congressional District. The meeting between Miller and Davis, the offshoot of the democratic review since the 2020 census, is the only one among Republican incumbents in Congress in Tuesday’s state primary.
Trump backed Miller on Jan. 1 and held a subsequent fundraiser for her at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. But Davis has the support of much of the local party, including 31 of the GOP’s 35 district presidents, as well as neighboring GOP congressmen Darin LaHood of Peoria and Mike Bost of Murfisboro.
“With Mary, you can choose a fearless America’s first patriot,” Trump said. “She is an amazing woman, a man I know very well. She has been with me since day one. There are no bad statements, you know, saying bad things about me two years ago, three years ago, a year ago, “Trump said, adding that she was a” warrior for our movement. “
Continuing to attack the two Republicans on the House of Representatives election commission investigating Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol uprising, the former president told the crowd: “If you want to send a message to (Wyoming Rep., USA) Liz Cheney, (Illinois) US Representative Adam Kinsinger and (Speaker of the US House of Representatives) Nancy Pelosi and the fake media, then this Tuesday you have to vote for a truly wonderful man, Mary Miller.
Miller said that “on behalf of the MAGA patriots in America,” she wanted to thank Trump “for the historic victory of white lives in the Supreme Court,” but did not specify what he meant. The court ruling, she said, “would never have been possible if Never-Trump’s RINOs had made their way,” using the term to call Davis a “Republican by name.”
Trump also sought to take credit for the appointment of three conservative judges during his presidency and their role in Friday’s 6-3 ruling, which overturned a 1973 court ruling that gave women the right to seek abortion without miscarriage. government intervention.
“The court gave a victory for the Constitution, a victory for the rule of law and, above all, a victory for life,” Trump said. Citing generations of the anti-abortion movement, as well as constitutional conservatives, “your boundless love, sacrifice and devotion have finally been fully rewarded.”
The crowd chanted, “Thank you, Trump.”
Thousands of Trump supporters gathered inside and on the outskirts of the fairgrounds, not far from the blues of the Mississippi River against Missouri, many wearing red hats “Make America Great Again,” some others wearing shirts proclaiming “Jesus is my savior.” Trump is my president “and” God, weapons and Trump. “
Symbolizing the influence Trump still holds over Republican voters, Ronda Goodwin of nearby Quincy admitted she didn’t know much about Miller’s two years in Congress, but said the former president’s approval was good enough for her.
“Anyone Trump approves of is likely to be a winner,” Goodwin said. “I haven’t done much of my own research. I decided that his people had checked on her more than I ever could, and if he supported her, that was all I needed.
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