Since 2002, the IL GOP has been politically irrelevant – and virtually everything they touch, dies. In 2004, the IL GOP recruited Maryland resident Alan Keyes to run against then IL state senator Barack Obama for US Senate. Keyes would lose the race to Obama by 43 points, 70-27. In 2014, IL GOP-establishment candidate Bruce Rauner, a wealthy private equity executive, would defeat Gov. Pat Quinn, D, 50-46, but in 2018, billionaire JB Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, would defeat Rauner’s re-election hopes by a significant margin, 54-38. And in 2022, the IL GOP recruited Aurora Mayor Richard...