'I offer this not-so-ancient history lesson to illustrate how far to the right the Republican Party has moved in the five years since Rauner signed the abortion-rights bill that eliminated the trigger language. . .' | bennyjshow
But Republicans were livid. And in the Republican primary of 2018, state rep Jeanne Ives ran at Rauner from the right. He beat her, but it was a close and bruising race.
Griffin pumped $50 million into Irvin’s campaign, trying to run him as a “moderate”. But this time around MAGA wasn’t looking the other way, as they did with Rauner back in 2014. First Rauner and now Griffin—you might say MAGA ran two of the richest Republicans right out of the state.
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