Illinois is a deep blue state on the whole. And along with deep blue comes a disregard of and even a hatred for issues like gun rights for the little people among many in the political class – even among some Republicans. What’s surprised me in this election season is the unabashedly pro-gun positions staked out by many candidates.
At Guns Save Life, we can’t endorse candidates because of our tax status. We do, however, educate the people on candidates’ positions. Here are some races we’re aware of with a substantive difference between the candidates in contested Republican primary races.
Why just a handful of Republican races? Because not a single pro-gun Democrat has reached out to us. Frankly, that should be alarming by itself, but shows how Democrats running for office have moved hard left, refusing to progress toward a future of freedom and instead promoting a system of gun control that reenacts past tyrannies.
Here are those races we covered in print and on the website.
Adam Niemerg vs. Jim Acklin: 102nd House District.
Adam Niemerg crushed Jim Acklin with over 85% of the ballots cast. It wasn’t even close.
From WirePoints:
Members of the downstate Republican Freedom Caucus, Reps. Adam Niemerg, Blaine Wilhour and Brad Halbrook, all handily survived primary challenges this Tuesday.
The victories of Wilhour and Niemerg are particularly notable as they both faced teachers-union backed opponents. Wilhour won with a resounding 79% of the vote and Niemerg won an even bigger 88%.
And that’s after the unions spent several hundreds of thousands backing their candidates.
Regan Deering vs. Chuck Erickson: 88th House District.
Regan Deering took this one by by over a 2:1 margin.
Four-way race for State Senate 53rd District (Sen. Tom Bennett’s seat): Balkema, Faber, Kirkton, Wynn Bence
Chris Balkema came away with almost 50% of the votes in this four-way race.
Bost, a four term incumbent, narrowly missed getting primaried out of office by a very strong Darren Bailey. Bost took this by less than 3%. We’ll be watching Bost to see if he keeps drinking the water in DC.
14th Congressional District: Jim Marter vs. Charlie Kim.
Jim Marter clobbered Charlie Kim, the Democrat who ran as a Dem in another district, then threw his hat in the ring as a Republican in the 14th Congressional District race.
17th Congressional District: Judge Joe McGraw vs. Scott Crowl.
Judge Joe McGraw won this one by a 2:1 margin over farmer Scott Crowl.
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