Illinois Republicans head to Milwaukee for the party’s national convention this week amid the political upheaval of electing a new state chairman.
Then-Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Kathy Salvi greets people, July 31, 2022, at the DuPage County Fair in Wheaton. Salvi has been named chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.
Salvi won the chairmanship with about 60% of the weighted vote against state Rep. John Cabello of Machesney Park, a Rockford suburb, in an initial round of voting after Aaron Del Mar, the Palatine Republican Township committeeman, withdrew from the contest. In a final tally, 16 of the 17 members voted for Salvi, with one abstention, said GOP sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the committee’s deliberations.
In the short term, rallying delegates behind the former president at the national convention is an easy job. All 64 of them are pledged to Trump’s nomination. A prime example is the 2022 GOP nomination of far-right downstate evangelical Darren Bailey for governor, aided in part through backdoor help from the man who ultimately defeated him, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Bailey lost badly in the general election and his candidacy cost Republicans across the ballot.
Edgar said he believes it could be “a long time before the Republican Party can come around in Illinois” if Trump wins. Acknowledging Trump’s previous losses in Illinois and concerns by some Republicans that his presence on the ballot has dragged down Republicans in down ballot contests, Salvi said she believes the 2024 election will be different because of voters’ dissatisfaction with Biden and his policies.
Bags of balloons are hoisted to the ceiling in the Fiserv Forum ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention, July 12, 2024, in Milwaukee. Democrats are “obviously very proud of Chicago. And I love Chicago. I have investments in Chicago,” Trump said, “But when you look at the crime in Chicago, when you look at what’s gone wrong with Chicago, it’s not a very good thing to be displaying right now.”
Democrats successfully used the high court’s decision to overturn Roe as a rallying cry in the 2022 midterm elections and are heavily promoting reproductive rights in the 2024 campaign.
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