Eyes will be on Republican Mike Bost during Illinois's primary on Tuesday as he faces a primary challenger backed by his colleagues.
Rep. Mike Bost , who represents Illinois’s 12th Congressional District, is facing a challenger from the party’s hard-line flank. Though Bost has the incumbent and fundraising advantages, as well as anBost’s Illinois primary is considered one of the tightest of the GOP’s 2024 races and the one that has drawn the most attention from the Land of Lincoln. Bailey, a right-flank candidate, lost the 2022 gubernatorial race to Gov. J.B.
Bost won the former president’s support for Congress after he vocally opposed President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and also won the backing of Trump allies, such as Reps. Jim Jordan and Ronny Jackson . Gaetz and Bost have a complicated history, particularly after they sat on opposite sides of the House’s chaotic speakership vacancy and elections. Bostat the Florida congressman when he was speaking on the House floor in January 2023 as he and other hard-line conservatives were withholding support for McCarthy’s speakership.
“House Republicans have been in a state of constant retreat. Congressman Gaetz is on the advance,” Gaetz’s spokesperson said of the congressman’s decision to not attend the GOP event in West Virginia.
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