MENDON, Ill. – Former President Donald Trump used a rural demonstration in midwestern Illinois at the fairgrounds Saturday night to support Darren Bailey for the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primaries, as he also reiterated the his support for U.S. Rep. Mary Miller and made a comeback victory. by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
“Darren is a farmer and he’s a fighter and he’s been a prominent warrior in the Illinois state Senate, where he’s totally, totally respected by all of them,” Trump told a crowd of thousands at the fairgrounds. Adams County, near Quincy.
“It will crack down on the violent crime that is devouring our Democratic-led cities and restore the state of Illinois to greatness. Darren has my full and full support,” Trump said, calling the Democratic governor’s first term and re-election JB Pritzker “one of the worst governors in America.”
Bailey, a staunch supporter of Trump who has actively sought the former president’s endorsement as the end point of success in a six-way Republican primary race, said he will work to get Illinois to accept a new Trump offer in the White House in 2024.
“Here’s the deal. I’m not going to lie to anyone and I won’t let anything go unnoticed. And when I see it, I’ll give it a name,” Bailey said after Trump told Bailey’s story by pulling a hair out of place out of his head. ‘ex-president during the photo shoot before the rally.
“We have our work done here in Illinois, friends,” Bailey said. “I made a promise to President Trump that in 2024, Illinois will roll the red carpet because Illinois will be ready for President Trump.”
Trump lost Illinois by 17% of the vote in his winning presidential candidacy in 2016 and his re-election lost in 2020.
Trump, who has often delayed endorsements unless he was sure of a candidate’s victory, predicted that Bailey “would win very large primaries and you will continue and win the election.”
Bailey, a Trump presidential nominee in 2020, comes from a region of Illinois where voters have solidly supported the former president, and has tried to cultivate his support in his candidacy for governor as a base of support. which has been gradually growing throughout the state. .
He has also been Pritzker’s most demonstrable critic, beginning with the ultimately unsuccessful demands to block orders to mitigate the Democratic governor’s pandemic while promoting an evangelical rural populist candidacy denouncing the cultural policies of the urban city of Chicago. .
Bailey is in a field of candidates that includes Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, Petersburg investor Jesse Sullivan, Bull Valley businessman Gary Rabine, former State Senator Paul Schimpf of Waterloo and attorney for Waterloo. Hazel Crest Max Solomon.
Trump’s visit was aimed at increasing Miller’s involvement, whose first-year term has been shaken by controversy, in a contest against five-term U.S. Republican Rep. Rodney Davis in the new 15th District of Congress. The Miller-Davis party, a branch of the redistribution of Democratic districts after the 2020 census, is the only Republican incumbent in Congress in Tuesday’s state primary.
Trump endorsed Miller on Jan. 1 and made a fundraiser later for her on his Mar-a-Lago estate. But Davis has the support of much of the local GOP establishment, including 31 of the district’s 35 GOP presidents, as well as neighboring GOP congressmen Darin LaHood of Peoria and Mike Bost of Murphysboro.
“With Mary, you can choose a fearless America First Patriot,” Trump said. “She is an amazing woman, someone I have known very well. He 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’s” a warrior of our movement. “
After attacking the two Republicans on the select committee of the House investigating Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 uprising at the Capitol, the former president told the crowd, “If you want to send a message to (the deputy American of Wyoming) Liz Cheney, (Illinois) U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and the (Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) Nancy Pelosi and the fake media, so this Tuesday you have to vote for a really wonderful person, Mary Miller. “
Miller said that “on behalf of the MAGA patriots in America,” he wanted to thank Trump for “the historic victory of white life in the Supreme Court,” but did not explain what he meant. The court’s decision, he said, “would never have been possible if Never-Trump’s RINOs had been successful,” using the term to label Davis as “Republican-name only.”
Trump also sought to recognize the merit of appointing three Conservative judges during his presidency and his role in Friday’s 6-3 decision that overturned the 1973 court ruling that gave women the right to seek a abortion without undue government interference.
“The court granted a victory for the Constitution, a victory for the rule of law, and most importantly, 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 rewarded in their entirety.”
The crowd chanted, “Thank you, Trump.”
Thousands of Trump supporters gathered inside and on the outskirts of the fairgrounds, not far from the cliffs of the Mississippi River in front of Missouri, many wearing “Make America Great Again” red hats, some others wearing T-shirts proclaiming “Jesus he is my savior “. Trump is my president ”and“ God, Guns and Trump ”.
Symbolizing Trump’s dominance over Republican voters, Rhonda Goodwin of nearby Quincy admitted not knowing much about Miller’s two years in Congress, but said the former president’s support was good enough for her.
“Anyone Trump endorses will likely be the winner,” Goodwin said. “I didn’t do much research. I thought his people had examined him more than I ever did and if he endorses it, that’s all I need.”