The Democratic governor of Illinois and his Republican challenger have accused each other of being out of touch and too extreme ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker took office in 2019 after trouncing an increasingly unpopular GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner, whose quest for a far-reaching conservative agenda was stymied by a powerful Democratic-controlled Legislature. Now Pritzker argues that his opponent, state Sen. Darren Bailey, goes beyond Rauner's ideology and is “too extreme” on issues such as abortion access and restrictions on guns, and has no concrete proposals to reduce crime or bolster education or human services.
