Tonight, the primary election results from Colorado, New York, Oklahoma, Illinois and Utah will be reported. In addition, there are primary runoff races in Mississippi and South Carolina. The J6 hearings have been timed to interfere in these primary elections.
Polling time close in South Carolina at 7pm ET; Illinois, Mississippi and Oklahoma at 8pm ET; Colorado, Nebraska and New York at 9pm ET and Utah polls close at 10pm ET.
Heavy focus will be on the Illinois and New York state governor primary. Four Republicans are vying to be New York’s Republican governor. Representative Lee Zeldin is the presumptive favorite, but he is competing with Harry Wilson, a moderate corporate turnaround specialist; Rob Astorino, the party’s 2014 nominee for governor; and Andrew Giuliani, the son of the former New York City mayor.
The Republican primary for Illinois governor has become a contest between Trump endorsed State Senator Darren Bailey; Mayor Richard C. Irvin of Aurora; Jesse Sullivan, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur. With the Trump endorsement Mr. Bailey has built a big polling lead in the final weeks of the campaign.
New York Times Election Results Here
CNN Election Results Here
Illinois Republicans have descended into infighting and finger-pointing on the eve of the state’s primaries as a MAGA-aligned candidate for governor appears poised to claim the nomination over the GOP establishment favorite who spent $50 million only to see his prospects collapse.
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Darren Bailey, a Trump-supporting conservative from a rural downstate town, took a comfortable lead in the primary weeks ago, according to a Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ poll that showed him leading among Republicans downstate and in the Chicago suburbs. Trump’s endorsement at a weekend rally in west-central Illinois most likely gives Bailey an even healthier bump among MAGA primary voters who dominate the vote outside the Chicago metropolitan area and suburbs.
So now, Illinoisans, even if you wanted Irvin to win the primary, or some other candidate, you MUST vote for Bailey. Do not allow Pritzker to win again. A Bailey win would cause the Democrats’ heads to explode. He CAN win. In 2018 Pritzker got only 54% of the vote running against Rauner who nearly universally despised.
The Illinois GOP “leaders” are fighting amongst themselves because Bailey won the primary. They had convinced themselves that only Irvin could beat Pritzker. Those of us in Illinois need to pressure the GOP party to back Bailey and work to get him elected. And WE need to vote for Bailey in November.
Illinois GOP needs to get rid of Open Primaries. Lived in Grundy County for 19 years. It’s hard to win statewide elections, more difficult when you’re State party machine allows Dems to push the weakest GOP candidate across the line on the primaries.
I totally agree! Why are Democrats or even unaffiliateds allowed to select the nominee for the Republican party?
NW suburbs Republican party endorsed Sullivan! I didn’t vote for him because his bio showed involvement in globalism and he talks about “faith” yet he never says what that faith is. Plus on the survey returns Bailey had better policy answers than anyone.
This is excellent news for those in Southern Illinois who have been beaten up so badly over the decades. Wishing only good luck to Darren Bailey from Xenia, IL — not that far from where I grew up! Good luck, Illinois, you deserve some good news!
I agree that this is great news for southern Illinois. Indeed it’s great news for any region of Illinois outside of metro Chicago.
The Chicago centric Democrats and RINOs who run politics at the state level in Illinois always claim that grassroots, populist, MAGA conservatives don’t have statewide appeal. What they really mean is that these candidates don’t appeal to Chicago. They most definitely appeal to a large percentage of people nearly everywhere else in Illinois.
I counter that Chicago centric Democrats and RINOs don’t have statewide appeal because they don’t appeal to the significantly large number of grassroots, populist, MAGA conservatives that reside elsewhere in the state.
The Illinois political establishment of both parties needs to realize that the whole claim that true conservatives don’t appeal to a statewide electorate is a two way argument that can also be applied to their liberal, establishment Democrat and RINO candidates as well.
It’s absurd that the Illinois political establishment expects conservatives in the vast conservative regions of Illinois to be happy to be ruled as a political vassal of liberal Chicago
GOP primary voters watch too much Fox News. They are low-information voters for the most part.
I might disagree. Those who bother to show up and vote in the primary pay more
attention to the candidates and what they stand for.
Its the low information voters who come to the general and stamp “what their
daddies did”. LOL And their daddies could be the federal government if you get
my drift.
I agree. I paid attention and I even bothered to research every single candidate on my ballot in advance of going to my polling place.
And democrats are low-reality voters. What do you clowns watch now that your favorite propaganda game shows like CNN have hit the skids?
Yeah, right. Everyone knows CNN’s the place for real news.
/sarc
Explain, Paleocon. Are you suggesting that the people who voted for Bailey are low-information?
I would argue that GOP primary voters, and even Democrat primary voters, are typically more motivated, engaged, and informed than general election voters. This is especially true for the comparatively low profile primaries that occur in non-presidential election years and for the areas that hold local elections separately in odd numbered years.
Illinois is one of the state that holds local elections separately in odd numbered years as that makes it easier for government insiders to outvote non-insiders who often ignore these odd numbered year local elections.
The RINOs who regard Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity as their intellectual leaders are too unmotivated, disengaged, and uninformed to bother with voting in the primaries compared to grassroots, populist, MAGA conservatives.
Substantiate your claim Pelecon… it’s obvious that your accusation is low information opinion.
This was great.
The entire GOP establishment including that idiot Durkin supported this Democrat from Aurora because of Ken Griffin’s foolishly spent money.
Ken Griffin should vet his candidates better.
The GOP establishment will probably quietly support Jabba now.
Bailey is a decent man. The first time in my life Illinois Republicans nominated a decent man for governor and only the second time they’ve nominated someone decent for statewide office (the last being Senator Peter Fitzgerald in 1998).
It’s a state that is rotten to the core.
I believe Illinois leads the nation in the total # of separate Govt. Taxing bodies at 6,700. Due mostly to cook county, State politics in Illinois is indeed, rotten to the core. I moved to Northern Indiana but still work in Chicago. 20 months from winter retirement to Florida with eventual Florida citizenship. I considered Arizona snowbird retirement for a while but that state became liberal. Chicago will never recover to pre-Covid vitality. Chicago is on a steady descent due to violent crime. I’m glad Bailey won. F Joe Biden and F JB Pritzker too.
Re Ken Griffin, you probably know he first threatened to move his business to Florida and then shortly before the primary he said he definitely is moving his business. I don’t think this was an entirely business-related decision, I think he was having a tantrum because he spent $50 million to help Irvin win and it didn’t work. He wants to be in a state where he can buy the winning candidates, I guess. I don’t know that he’ll have any more success in Florida but who knows. He was born in Florida, I didn’t look yet to see when he moved to Illinois but of course he moved to Chicago. Does he not understand that most of the state outside of Chicago is entirely different than Chicago?
Regarding Griffin’s bankrolling of Irvin, the SunTimes says:
Except for wealthy politicians who bankroll their own campaign, this is the largest amount ever given by a single donor to a U.S. candidate at any level
The $50 million from Griffin accounted for nearly 95% of what Irvin took into his campaign account, records show.
I really don’t understand how wealthy people are able to give political candidates millions of dollars, and I’m afraid to even do proper research to find out exactly why because it will anger me more, I’m sure. Well at least he lost, and in a huff he’s leaving.
Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association spent tens of millions of dollars in the GOP primary, according to Republican and Democratic sources
They think Irvin could beat Pritzker but Bailey cannot. I disagree. Irvin was unappealing to many conservatives, in part because of his support of BLM. Irvin’s attack ads of Baily pointed out that Bailey is pro-life, but the GOP party is pro-life!
It is very possible that some brain dead democrats crossed over to vote for Bailey because “he could never beat Pritzker.” I was surprised by the margin of victory. Sullivan is a trad apparently and spoke out against CRT. I liked Rabine but his campaign never gained any traction. More libertarian in his approach to education-keeping it local-aligns with the notion of subsidiarity. He was the most outspoken about property taxes, which people flee the state because it makes the cost of living so high especially once someone retires- they leave. Every republican in the field has a chance at victory. The economy is in the tank. Fifty people shot most weekends in the hellhole mentioned by Bailey. Yes, that will appeal to people in Chicago who ate sick and tired of crime. Sorry rinos, you don’t need a black candidate to win a republican office-that is known as the soft bigotry of low expectations, and the people of Illinois did not fall for it.
I respect your right to vote for Rabine, so none of my critiques of Rabine below are focused on you. They are instead focused on Rabine himself.
The reason Rabine’s campaign never gained any traction is because he dedicated 95% of his campaigning to metro Chicago. Many of us in the rest of the state are tired of politicians from both major parties treating Chicago like it’s the only thing that matters in the state.
My region of the state, the St. Louis Metro East, is the second most populous region of the state, yet I don’t believe that he ever visited here. Running for governor of Illinois and completely ignoring the Metro East is like running for governor of Missouri and completely ignoring Kansas City.
Of course, every region of the state deserves attention and not just the big metro areas like Chicago and the Metro East.
I respectfully called Rabine out for only focusing on Chicago on his campaign’s Facebook page and my comment was deleted. I have no tolerance for censorship loving, free-speech hating politicians like that of any political party.
Bailey is also a small business owner with a successful farm.
I hate how wealthy and powerful people like Ken Griffin believe that they can buy politicians and elections. Sadly, they are often successful, but this time thankfully Griffin failed to buy Irvin into being the Republican candidate for Illinois governor.
The regular people of Illinois rebuked Griffin, Irvin, and the Illinois GOP establishment by voting for Bailey over Irvin.
I like how a large percentage of Bailey’s campaign funds are from small donations from regular people. It helps keep a politician honest when a significant portion of their funding comes from the public from which they are supposed to serve. Also, most of these donations from the general public are too small for any of the donors to be able to buy undue influence.
Griffin showed an air of pompous superiority in thinking that he could buy the Illinois governorship again. He did that with the failed RINO Rauner whose only accomplishment was to make Illinois the first state with taxpayer subsidized abortion.
Illinois doesn’t belong to the pompous elites of either major party, whether those elites be JB Pritzker or Griffin. It belongs to we the people.
Politicians should always serve the interests of the general public and not the wealthy and powerful few that fund them.
Wishing God’s speed to Darren Bailey. He can turn this state around. How do you wake up the populi? I was out watering yesterday and two neighbors had to come over and tell me how much they hate DeSantis. Like there is even a question… I think it must have been the Ultra MAGA sign I placed in front of the house. I reside mostly in Florida. I come from Illinois (Oak Brook) and would love to see this State turn back RED. If there is a chance of an honest election in Illinois, Darren Bailey is the guy. Fingers crossed, prayers up.
What do you think… when we head back south should we leave the sign out:
“If you hate Trump after this 18mo sh*t show your commitment to stupidity is impressive”
LOL
IMO the GOP Party in Illinois, and the GOP leadership nationally, need to get behind Bailey, support him, and TELL conservatives in Illinois to vote for him in the general election. I’m sure there are some butt hurt people who wanted some other candidate to win the nomination but they have to get over it. Bailey was my pick, but if Irvin or another candidate had won the nomination I would vote for that candidate in November. The GOP party needs to do it’s job!
BTW, Pritzker allegedly wants to run for President in 2024, so a loss in the election in November would be even more awesome.
Only 20% of registered GOP voters turned out for the Primary. Putzker will waltz in to a second term if Illinois GOP voters don’t show up in November.
IL Gov Bailey and CD 15 Miller MAGA winners tonight. Go go go!!
Not worth looking at the ridiculous CNN website for election results. Those communists sound like Jr girls gossiping. Absolutely pathetic commentary by those leftist hacks.
Note how they frame it all and essentially attack every conservative with hyperbolic adjectives…completely disgusting…just went for a quick look to see who won and I couldn’t stand it.
They hate so hard they can’t even pretend otherwise.
I noticed Tina Peters lost…I wonder how much the indictments hurt. The left is using every strategy, including these aggressive, arbitrary prosecutions to eliminate/go after candidates.
I’m tired of it…on one hand, I want us to do it more severely when we are in power to teach them a lesson bc I’m tired of Rs not fighting back…but on the other, I know there has to be a better way.
No, I don’t think she lost at all. I I think this is like the Democrat primary in Georgia I think it was, where the candidate supposedly got zero votes in her own precinct.
I was there when the polls closed and watched them load the ballot boxes to go to the counting center. Seems like they got done awfully fast over there, compared to how fast they were working where I was. Right now I am wondering if they even bothered doing anything with the ballots – maybe just picked some numbers out of thin air. We’ve certainly seen them do that with COVID cases.
Tina Peters is not a quitter and will certainly have considered this possibility. And as she has said many times, she has nothing left to lose anyway, with all they’ve taken from her.
Thanks for the information, LAIG – when we went home after we voted, I asked my husband how many of the election workers he thought were actually going to do their job, or were we going to see another 2020 here in Mesa County. He said the same as me: NONE.
Actually I have heard some county clerks are trying to demand a hand recount. Maybe they realize they are still responsible for the results and Jena Griswold will certainly not have their back.
You should see what happened in Garfield County (which uses a different kind of voting machines than Dominion). Go here and look for the Colorado Republican SOS race and see what happened at 1:33AM. Ask your friends and family to explain that! https://magaraccoon.com/primaryresults.asp
Also watch this podcast for more info: https://conservative-daily.com/cd-livestream/jeff-odonnell-unmasks-the-election-stolen-before-our-eyes
There is a better way, as real Americans, show the Bolsheviks how to win the war they declared in America by going for their throats and employing scorched earth tactics. Republicants are giant 9u55ies!!!
Unfortunately Tina lost and so did Colorado. She would have romped and stomped and CLEANED UP THE ELECTION PROCESS – she has the cojones to do it! The other gal is a milk-sop mama’s baby RINO and will not do ANYTHING to clean this mess up, even if she does accidentally manage to win.
The dem party went ‘way over the top to do the same thing to Tina as they did to Pete Navarro and all of the Trump people FALSELY arrested. Her good reputation was ruined with FALSE ARRESTS AND CHARGES. I hope GJPD’s reputation suffers mightily for this because they were all in on it, along with the f’ing FBI.
Rs in NY saw no real reason to primary Zeldin. Why Rudy Jr. wanted to oust him is beyond me.
There was also a Harry Wilson running.
because he is a RINO!!!
Well Mullin is RINO too. OK loses all around…
Shannon has given as much in donations to the Democrats as he has to the Republicans. Not good news for OK
I understand Zeldin has won the NY primary.
Can anyone from NY tell me why upstate people would not like Guiliani. Yes, I do understand that there has always been a distrust of NYC politician, but I thought that NY as a state might have come to appreciate all that Rudy did for an almost ungovernable city. And yes, I do understand the son is not the father, but I don’t see anything worth much in Zeldin.
Liking someone and voting for someone are two different things. As far as I can tell, Giuliani rarely campaigned outside of the city, and certainly did very little if anything in the western (more conservative) part of the state. We get that kind of treatment from the Democrats, we don’t need it from Republicans too.
I’m more curious why President Trump didn’t make a formal endorsement in this race either. Any ideas?
He understands NYS politics.
Probably because he’s friends with both Rudy & Lee, and staying neutral was his best choice.
I watch Real America’s Voice; Andrew is on regularly, with his campaign team, in different parts of NYS.
He and Rudy have interviewed all over while on the trail and Andrew has stated he started campaigning last year and has been to every county in NYS.
Sooooo…he had to be upstate at some point in time. Now, if the powers that be in local Republican politics publicized it or recognized him that’s another story completely.
I know how these operatives work a campaign and it’s not beneath them to ignore or dissuade a primary candidate to “don’t bother to come to this municipality” because we want nothing to do with you; we are supporting Lee…or Rob…or we don’t want a Trumper here or we think a Giuliani is NOT relevant today…blah, blah, blah…I know, I was on those committees for many years…that’s the way it goes.
Thanks for the explanation. I’ve lived in this state for only 10 years since retiring, but sometimes it seems like a lifetime.
As someone with similar experience I say you NAILED it.
I never heard of Giuliani visiting my county and a quick search turns up nothing. So maybe he did visit but I don’t think so. Also I live in a Republican county in NYS and the only signs I saw were Lee Zeldin signs. And the only fliers I received in the mail were from Zelden and Wilson. I really think Giuliani put in zero effort in my area.
President Trump is under indictment, investigation and every other kind of investigation by the NY state AG and SDNY Feds.
Anything he does in NY will be used against him in those investigations as well as be used by democrats in NY to take legal action against Republican Candidates.
Plus, President Trump is like ambivelent to either of the candidates.
I don’t know if you saw all of the discussion on the first page where people are discussing the two candidates, I just glossed over it because I’m not in NY, but maybe there are some clues there?
We needed Andrew Giuliani to win NY if we ever hope to stop the next round of lockdowns and poison death shots. I can’t believe people still can’t grasp what is at stake here.
When will people learn to ignore the ENEmedia? A good rule of thumb is when they say left you go right.
Everyone in NY outside of NYC distrusts NYC politicians, from both parties. That’s #1. Andrew is seen as another son of another politician using his last name to get elected, and we recently had another Andrew who did the same thing and spent years wrecking the state. Also, AG did not campiagn at all upstate, and Zeldin did. In most of the state, AG is a complete unknown, no matter who his father is. Zeldin, a LIer, not a NYC-ite, is seen as more “like” the people upstate. AG is 36-years-old and has never held office. Many people find it pretty presumptuous that his first try at election would be for governor. Others may have other reasons, but I live in NY and that’s how I see it.
AG is 36-years-old and has never held office.
That would certainly affect my vote. I also wonder why Trump didn’t endorse him. But if Giuliani won the primary I would still vote for him November. So I hope all of the Giuliani supporters do the same for Zeldin. Let’s all stick together, folks.
PDJT was at a rally for Andrew in NYC and spoke; it was covered on RAV.
We’ll all vote for Zeldin in November and we’ll get 33% of the vote, as usual, the reason being that Ds outvote Rs here 3-1 (after you factor in the fraud). The same would happen if Guiliani were the candidiate, or any R. Rs can’t win statewide here. Not trying to be pessimistic – this is just the reality here.
Well, hey maybe that vote total will change now that NYS Supreme Court struck down the right to vote for non-citizens in NYS, which amounted to about 800,000.
Now if you could just get to Albany Board of Elections before they program the machines for each candidates’ totals that the NYS Republican chairman(via committee vote) has designated as winner/loser.
They should make murder illegal too.
Same as in CA
You gave had at least one Republican governor in the past 20 or so years.
We will see. In upstate I think Republicans have an advantage but after the fraud comes in from NYC we don’t stand a chance. That said, we still need to vote harder as they say because Hochul and the killer democrats need to be gotten rid of. And then the Republicans better get rid of the emergency bs, stop forcing our kids to get worthless covid shots, and hire back our nurses. Well see about that too, I suppose. New York Republicans are just about as worthless as the Democrats.
And Joe Biden has held various elected positions for more than half a century.
“AG is 36 years old and he has never held office.” You say that as if it’s a bad thing. And don’t forget this kid learned at the knee if Rudy Giuliani himself!
That doesn’t reassure me at all. I’ve never been impressed by the old cross dresser.
I’m a Floridian and have no dog in the NY fight, but I’ve heard over and over that to win statewide a republican has to pull 7 to 10% from NYC. I’d think AG would stand a better chance at that, but my NYC friend said the Giuliani name isn’t what it used to be in NYC thanks to the media.
I hope and pray Zeldin is able to win in November. Anybody would be better than Hochul.
Your friend is mostly right, but the 7-10% might be a bit low, and in any case is much harder to get now. Rs used to be able to pull that with votes from Queens and Staten Island, but the Queens votes are mostly gone now and the SI votes are less than they used to be. So what used to be a heavy lift is now a nearly impossible lift. True too about the media smears of Guiliani, but to be fair AG is too young and has zero track record. It’s been clear for a while to most of us here that this primary was not a race he could win.
I like Andrew much better(and I’m a retired NYS politician), BUT Zeldin fits the NYS Republican Model better than Giuliani.
Zeldin will negotiate with both houses in the legislature and cut deals, here, there and everywhere. He will be weak (my definition; not at all like a Giuliani or Trump), he is soft spoken, he speaks in word salads when he’s lying and he doesn’t stand out as brash, straight-shooter, ya-da, ya-da, ya-da…it NYS politics and yeup…it’s all bullshit!
Sooo…the good ones walk.
I really don’t see much difference between Cuomo, Hochul or Zeldin in reality; other than I don’t think Zeldin is quite as sleazy and might be a bit brighter than those two dogs but he is weak.
I’m not sure if Zeldin can handle the NYC Mayor or if he has the guts to fire the Soro’s backed DA’s who are soft on crime.
Time will tell.
He stabbed PDJT in the back a few times and that is noteworthy.
So…it won’t surprise me if he loses in November.
> Zeldin fits the NYS Republican Model better than Giuliani.
That mold is not very good. Except for Pataki NY Republicans haven’t had the governorship since the early 70s. 12 years out of 50, not a good record.
Pataki was a liberal; I worked under his reign.
But he is GOP.
NY has never elected a conservative governor, at least using the modern meaning of “conservative.” Pataki was a liberal, and before that we had Nelson Rockefeller, another liberal, and before that you have to go back to Thomas Dewey, another liberal but from a much different era. Expecting a real conservative to be elected statewide in NY is a delusion.
What about Buckley? In my day in the primaries we had the republican line, but also conservative and right to life, at least in Monroe County. (Rochester western NYS)
Thanks for filling in some of the background.
Also, Zeldon pulled a fast one and had Guilliani pulled from the Debate. He tattled that Guilliani did not get the Jab!
Andrew Giuliani banned from GOP debate at WCBS studio over refusal to provide vax proof
https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/andrew-giuliani-banned-from-gop-gubernatorial-debate-over-vax-issue/
https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/andrew-giuliani-says-hell-debate-gop-gov-rivals-regardless-of-vax-ban/
Zeldin again.
Zeldin roasts Andrew Giuliani as the ‘Chick-Fil-A runner’ of Trump White House
https://nypost.com/2022/06/22/lee-zeldin-roasts-andrew-giuliani-as-the-chick-fil-a-runner-of-trump-white-house/
agree, I have seen videos of him practically hugging CUOMO when he was Gov. Probably voter fraud.
Better question is why would NY Republicans want to fire Zeldin? He has good name ID and incumbency. Voters probably felt he was doing a good enough job to fight it out in the general.
Maybe Andrew ran to just obtain name recognition? Perhaps he’ll end up as lieutenant governor, attorney general or run 3 years from now for Mayor of NYC?
Does “Lee Zeldin” look like Led Zeppelin if you look real quick? No wonder so many votes!!!!
Someone explain to me why TCT is linking the NYT and CNN for election results. Boggles the mind.
Because despite their inherent moonbattery, they actually do a good job of presenting election results. Strange but true.
The NYT has very capable computer and data visualization people. One of the greatest 3 hours of my life was spent watching the 2016 presidential election results roll in via NYT’s graphs.
They choose to.
Wut? Faux’s better?
🙃
I’m in Colorado, a precinct leader and everyone who won in the assemblies didn’t win primaries. Yes my friends…the fix is still in.
What are the assemblies? Are you talking about the party picks?
Yes, the Colorado GOP assembly was pretty exciting, when everybody discovered not only “there are more of us (MAGA) than there are of them (establishment)” but actually “there is an overwhelming supermajority of us and they have lost control of the assembly.” And that was even though the establishment Republicans decided to have the “voting” by these electronic clicker things that people didn’t know how to use and just seemed very sketchy.
So Tina Peters and everyone with her turned out to be extremely popular at the assembly, which made the party leadership furious, and they have spent the last several months trying to pretend Tina Peters doesn’t exist. As far as I’ve seen, any Colorado Republicans who knew what a secretary of state even was loved Tina Peters and barely even knew her opponents’ names. So the results of this “election” make about as much sense as a basement-dweller being more popular than Trump and Obama.
Now the question is, what are we going to do about it? I for one have no intention of accepting these results.
This is what I believe to be true in almost every state – that the MAGAs overwhelmingly dominate the GOP electorate in each state but have not yet found the means to take over the state parties. Everyone complains about RINOs, but they will only be eliminated when the state parties are wrested away from them. It’s taking longer than I like, but I also know the day is coming, and that’s where my personal hope resides.
Like the RNC, state parties are private establishment clubs. State leadership prefers conventions or assemblies over primaries because they write the rules that favor certain outcomes. Leaders have zero control at the ballot box – ask Eric Cantor – and will avoid primaries like the plague unless the fix is in with splitters or magical third-party candidates.
That said, the leadership ranks of some state GOP parties are being infiltrated by populists and slowly being changed for the better. I know personally of discussions to change rules in one state party now that the establishment’s grip is weakened. And I know of a group that is reconstituting another state’s GOP with great success without “help” from the RNC.
The level of citizen involvement in these two geographically distant states is unprecedented, with new members recognizing they need to be in it for the long haul. I’d not be surprised if other state parties are being infiltrated too.
It will be a tough, multi-year slog to reform the GOP, but that party is the best hope for real change. The GOP has the best principles, even though its establishment fails to live up to them. Be patient grasshoppers. The momentum is starting.
I have no idea what to do about these results. My ballot was counted according to ballot trax but I am certain is was counted with a scanner made in China and connected to the internet in China too.
So you are suggesting that the Dominion vote counting machines selected the winners, not the people voting?
Why am I not surprised. That is what they are designed to do.
Trump-endorsed candidate for IL-16 Darin LaHood won the Republican primary easily.
This is RINO Adam Kinzinger’s old district btw. Kinzinger dropped out of the race because he knew he couldn’t win. His announcement to drop out “came just hours after the Illinois state legislature passed a new congressional map that drew Kinzinger into the same district with another GOP incumbent, Rep. Darin LaHood, setting up a would-be primary matchup between Kinzinger and LaHood, a more reliable Trump ally in the House.”
Bye Adam. It would have been more fun if you’d been primaried, but the most important thing is you’ll be gone soon. You and Liz Cheney.
🙂
I think its more fun that we made him quit because he knew there was no way we would vote for him. So what tuned Kissmyassinger against Trump anyway seeing how he was a supposed supporter in the beginning?
I think it might have something to do with Kinzinger being a Paul Ryan pal. Even though Ryan dropped out and left office in Jan 2019, he was still fundraising for Kinzinger in 2021 (before Kinzinger decided to drop out of the 2022 race).
Oh gosh, while looking for info I came across this:
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and a longtime aide to Speaker Paul D. Ryan each were given an early look at the final report added to the infamous “Steele dossier,” court documents in a lawsuit against BuzzFeed News show.
Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled the unsubstantiated research booklet in 2016 about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia before he became president, gave the report to Kinzinger and Jonathan Burks, Ryan’s longtime chief of staff, after he completed it on Dec. 13, 2016, according to the court memo.
Wow, Kinzinger is even worse than I thought. I don’t think I knew that Steel gave the dossier to Kinzinger.
Maybe others feel differently but I wish Trump would have endorsed Peggy Hubbard for Senate. Tammy Duckworth is up for re-election. Hubbard has been vocally MAGA and vocally supportive of Trump, and she’s a black Republican. I’m afraid Kathy Salvi can’t beat Duckworth. I’ll still vote for her in November though, because we need to win those House and Senate majorities.
I agree. Kathy Salvi is the RINO establishment’s preferred candidate. She is the senate version of what Richard Irvin was in the gubernatorial race. Thankfully, Darren Bailey defeated Irvin.
I hate to think that Salvi may have beat Hubbard only because so many grassroots conservatives were pressured to believe that Salvi was the only “electable” option for the general election.
Conservative voters need to stop buying the lie that they have to go with the RINO candidate in order to be competitive in the general election.
I agree. I’m sure I’ve written this elsewhere and hate to repeat myself, but it’s just so important ……
If we all follow the strategy of voting for the highest quality people in the primaries and then vote GOP in November, we can help to remove the RINOs and get better people into office. People try to be a little too strategic in the primaries, voting for the people they THINK can win rather than the highest quality people. If voters can rest assured that regardless who wins the nomination all conservatives will vote for that candidate then they can feel freer to exercise their personal choices during the primaries. Sadly, we still have a lot of myopic voters who dislike someone, that person wins the primary, and they they have the knee-jerk reaction “I’m not going to vote for him/her in November!” This is why we lose seats in Congress and why we lose the White House.
I voted for Rabine, because he, like Trump, has actually built something in the private sector, and is not a politician first.
THANK YOU for pointing out what should be obvious to everyone here. I post almost on a weekly basis about President Trump’s first impeachment trial. Only one of the RINOs voted, “Guilty”. Mittens of course! All the rest of the RINOs voted “Not Guilty” but every Democrat, ALL OF THEM … voted “Guilty”!
And still, I read long time Treepers commenting that “RINOs are no different than Democrats.” … “RINOs are worse than Democrats because the Democrats are at least honest about their intentions.” … “You keep on voting the same way, you’ll keep getting the same thing.” “I will never vote for a RINO!” etc. etc.
So, now what will happen in Pennsylvania? Will we throw a conservative state in the garbage after we threw away Georgia? There were at least 5 Treepers, all with otherwise impeccable conservative credentials, who lobbied hard here at The Treehouse, to NOT vote for either Republican candidate in those Georgia US Senate elections. 3 or 4 of them are STILL here.
Counseling Republicans to not vote is one thing that Hillary, Obama and Pelosi would all love to hear.
Wake up people! Grow up! The mature, pragmatic MAGA Republican busts their tail to primary out RINOs and if they can’t, they crawl over broken glass to vote for the RINO.
I am 100% MAGA, even before President Trump arrived, even before the Tea Party.
Perhaps she didn’t request an endorsement. I don’t think President Trump gives out endorsements
without vetting candidates that ask.
I won’t believe for a second that Tina Peters actually lost, considering all the crooked people running the election. Cheating was more probable.
So many do not follow politics, only what they hear on social media, news and soo many do not even bother to vote in the primaries
You hit the target in center ring.
With primary turn-outs being so low, it is much easier to get the RNC Club Candidates through without much cheating at all. Turn-outs need to at least double to have any hope of overcoming Club Candidates.
Primary ad Local Election turn-outs rarely exceed 20% of voter populations.
Colorado has ONLY mail in ballots and Democrat and Republican Primary Ballots are both mailed out to the address. Anyone can vote in either Primary. Illegals vote in Colorado. There are many ways to fix an election.
So the only way to fix that is work hard to get the GOP to control the legislature and then pressure them to close the primaries and ditch mail-in ballots.
I think what we saw last night is we can’t do that any more than we can vote a capitalist party into the Soviet government. Not happening with the voting machines, ballot boxes, and voter rolls as they are now. Nobody who spoke up about election integrity was allowed to win.
We need to get rid of these obstacles to fair elections, and I don’t see any way to get it done through political channels. But there is such a thing as direct action, such as a whole bunch of people standing there refusing to let anyone go into the building where elections are stolen, until and unless our demands for a fair election system are met.
annieoakley, you should watch this podcast about the results. Not sure if they even counted the ballots, or just put in numbers occasionally, all in the same proportion!
https://conservative-daily.com/cd-livestream/jeff-odonnell-unmasks-the-election-stolen-before-our-eyes
First go to this site: https://magaraccoon.com/primaryresults.asp and look at what happened at 1:33AM in Garfield county in the SOS race! Copy the image and spread it everywhere, ask people how they explain that!
All of the News Media keeps saying this and I think it is another lie. As I was driving away from the ballot drop box at the County Offices, the reporter on a local conservative station quoted “Jenna Griswold says there isn’t much interest in the primaries this year.” “Only about 18% of voters have turned in a ballot, Griswold says.”
There isn’t an honest reporter anywhere. Griswold cannot allow Tina Peters to run against her.
I was able to research all of the candidates on my ballot in a total of approximately 4 hours spread across 2 days. Every voter should do this. Some can probably do it in a shorter amount of time. I research candidates for every office including judges.
“More probable”? The lady next to me in line for a ballot was pointing at the router right out on the middle of the table and saying, “At least you’re transparent about what you’re doing here.”
Trump on Telegram:
Congratulations to Darren Bailey on his very big and impressive win in the Republican Primary for Governor of Illinois. He will beat Pritzker, one of the worst and most obnoxious Governors (Mr. Lockdown!) in the USA.
https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/14897
I just want to note that Darren Bailey’s big GOP Governor primary win in Illinois is partly due to Democrat interloping. Pritzker convinced the Democrats (and some Republicans too) that Richard Irvin was the only Republican who could beat him, and Pritzker even funded pro-Bailey ads so they were eager to make Irvin lose. There weren’t very many hot Dem primary races so many Dems were free to cross over. (Unfortunately Illinois has semi-open primaries so anyone can choose either ballot. ) However, I’m not convinced that their theory about Irvin is true. I think Bailey CAN win in November. It’s imperative for all of the people supporting other GOP candidates to vote for Bailey in November.
Catalina Lauf won her primary
I shouldn’t be superficial but wow she’s cute! I haven’t researched her though. I hope she’s not a RINO.
Ryan Fournier
@RyanAFournier
Trump went 12-0 on his endorsements tonight.
GLORIOUS.
11:54 PM · Jun 28, 2022
I dont think many are convinced the elections are rigged yet.
because of Roe v. Wade the media will say.
Ding ding ding ding ding! This 100%
I think it’s pretty obvious the country as a whole is pretty happy to be done with Roe v. Wade. The “Night of Rage” seems to have been localized to the bluest areas, and didn’t last.
So the media can say it, but remember how few people are listening to, much less believing, the media now.
They just need something for the media to spin. It doesnt matter if no one cares or no one is listening.
In SC – shocked that Krystle Matthews won despite that damming audio but then, it probably excited the Dems at how ruthless and evil she’s willing to be – falls right into their mindset.
Can we jump ahead to Cabbage Patch Baier reporting Liz Cheyney’s loss in Wyoming?
PLEASE YES, let’s jump ahead to that!!!
Remember Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In with News of the Future?
With one “news item from the future,” they were right!
e.g.
August 16! I’m going to have a special “Bye Liz!” dinner and not do anything else but watch primary results and hang with Ultra MAGA patriots. 🙂 It will be a great day to see her political career ended for being a total witch. The last poll I saw, from mid-June, had Hageman 30 points ahead of Cheney, but I think that was before Cheney started begging Democrats and Independents to vote for her. Oh my God she’s so foul!
Morning treepers!
Some thoughts on NY gov primaries…
The demo-witch wins by default, no surprise there.
Repub Zeldin currently represents LI. Most ‘upstate’ NYers, and the rest of America, fail to realize that LI is RED country. LOTS of MAGA supporters, and even
more conservative who choose to keep under the radar, so to speak…
Zeldin has done a fair job for conservatives here, and has a big following amongst the outdoor (fishing/ hunting) community on LI. Beyond that, has has the experience to know how shady NY politics work & verses to navigate pitfalls…
Whereas, Guiliani talked a very good game, said all the right things, and garnered quite a bit of support. Kudos to him on that!
IF Guiliani is the ‘real deal’, we won’t know until after this next term. Should Zeldin ‘drop the conservative ball’, Guiliani will primary his azz, next time around. Bank on that.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And the ‘guaranteeD to lose’ Republican Party in NYS won’t be short circuited in a day, either…
Happy that Zeldin won. It’s now time for him to STEP UP and SHOW if he’s got the backbone to lead here. He’s smart. Hope he’s smart enough to see how a courageous man like Ron DeSantis has become so respected amongst his constituents. Hoping and praying that Lee Zeldin seizes his time to shine the same bright light!!!
Guiliani, if serious about changing the NY repub climate in a long term & more permanent way, should take this latest primary & learn from it. Polish his political acumen, build more momentum amongst true conservatives, etc. Cuz, if Zeldin poops the bed, it just may be Guiliani who finally ‘breaks’ the system here in NY.
Ideally, if Zeldin DOES step up and lead like a yankee DeSantis, he is gonna need ALLIES.
I’d like to see Guiliani take a step back and run for NYC MAYOR next time up, cuz the current one is a horror show…
Just some thoughts, from a local.
Godspeed Patriots!!!
For all of those cheering the Illinois GOP primary results – take a step back. GOP Voter turnout was awful. Looks like less than 20%. Putzker and Duckworthless had double the number of votes in uncontested races.
If the GOP is going to win any offices in November – voters need to get off of their backsides and actually turn out to vote.
Where are you getting info that for the primaries the Dems had double the number of votes of the GOP? Here are the numbers for the Governor primaries with 98% reporting:
GOP 779,137
Dem 799,590
And for the Senate primaries with 98% reporting:
GOP 696,940
Dem not reported because Duckworth was unopposed
I was watching as the numbers came in, and I think it may have been Cook County Clerk office, showed voter turnout % in suburban cook and also for Chicago. Those raw vote numbers were heavily favoring dems.
My candidate won our state house primary. These races are extremely important as our legislature prevented our weak government from from locking us down
No way Langford won in Oklahoma without machine help.
Darren Bailey isn’t the only grassroots, populist, MAGA conservative to secure the candidacy for a statewide office in this Illinois primary.
Tom DeVore, the attorney who represented Darren Bailey in his successful lawsuit against Pritzker’s tyrannical covid mandates, won his bid to be the Republican candidate for attorney general.
DeVore also represented numerous businesses in their fight against the covid mandates.
DeVore’s greatest contribution, however, is that he represented students, parents, faculty, and staff across Illinois in lawsuits against school districts who had decided to enforce Pritzker’s covid mandates. This fight became DeVore’s mission and he was incredibly successful having won all of his cases against these school districts.
Judge Mike McHaney was also elected to be the Republican candidate for appellate judge for the Illinois 5th District Appellate Court, which is the district for southern Illinois. McHaney was the judge who ruled in favor of Bailey and Devore in Bailey’s lawsuit against Pritzker’s covid mandates.
Pritzker openly defied this verdict and the sycophantic press incorrectly reported that this ruling only applied to Clay County, where the ruling was made, and not the entire state as McHaney had actually ruled.
Well, I can’t read NY Times report without paying to read it…and the CNN is full of so much BULL SHIT, i deleted the tab…So I will wait till later for the results.