Posted on 06/29/2022 6:10:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
Tom DeVore, who successfully challenged Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 mask mandate, won the Republican nomination for Illinois attorney general Tuesday and will face incumbent Democrat Kwame Raoul in November.
DeVore, 52, of Sorento, beat Deerfield business lawyer Steve Kim, the far-better funded Republican establishment candidate, and David Shestokas, an Orland Park attorney, who was part of former President Donald Trump’s legal team contesting 2020 election results in Pennsylvania.
With 90% of precincts reporting, DeVore had about 44% of the vote compared with about 35% for Kim and 21% for Shestokas.
DeVore’s central theme has focused on Pritzker’s COVID mandates. On Tuesday, he said Raoul has been too complicit.
“Raoul has for the last two years done whatever the governor has asked him to do,” DeVore said in an interview. “I’ll tell whoever is governor that there will be no more mandates.”
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Bagging RINOs in season.
We’re on a RINO hunt, and don’t think we don’t know how to weed ‘em out!
He’s just a sacrificial lamb. Isn’t illinois gone state wide?
The IL Gov. before JB Pigster was a Republican. Odds are against a Republican winning statewide, but it can be done. Need to do well in suburbs and crank up the downstate turnout.
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