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    Pritzker wins Illinois gubernatorial primary

    Pritzker wins Illinois gubernatorial primary

    Voters will also decide whether incumbent GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner will face off with him.

    By ELENA SCHNEIDER and DANIEL STRAUSS
    03/20/2018 07:08 PM EDT
    Updated 03/20/2018 09:25 PM EDT



    Facing Rep. Dan Lipinski, Marie Newman aims to take out the abortion rights opponent in a show of strength for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. | Leslie Adkins/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

    UPDATE
    J.B. Pritzker has won the Democratic nomination for governor in Illinois, according to The Associated Press. Pritzker, a self-funding billionaire who seeded his campaign with $70 million of his own money, defeated fellow Democrats Daniel Biss and Chris Kennedy in Tuesday's primary.


    Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is still locked in a close race with state Rep. Jeanne Ives, his conservative primary challenger.


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    Illinois voters headed to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of a conservative Democratic congressman facing a fierce challenge from the left — and potentially to set the stage for the most expensive gubernatorial race in the nation’s history.

    Rep. Dan Lipinski faces the best-funded and best-organized primary challenge of his seven-term House career, as Marie Newman aims to take out the abortion rights opponent in a show of strength for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.


    The primary results in the Chicago-based district won’t affect control of the House, but it has widened the gap between the party’s activist base and the moderate, swing voters Democrats need to capture the chamber in November.


    In the governor’s race, both party front-runners are hoping to beat back primary challengers on their right and left flanks.

    Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is hoping to dispatch Jeanne Ives, a state legislator who’s argued the governor isn’t conservative enough, while Democratic billionaire J.B. Pritzker, who’s sunk $70 million into his bid, aims to clear the field of several liberal opponents.


    Spending in the race is on pace to top the record $280 million spent in the 2010 California governor’s race.

    Several other House primaries — from the suburbs of Chicago down to the southwestern tip of the state — will also produce Democratic nominees to compete a handful of GOP-held districts that Democrats must make competitive to retake the majority.


    Polls close in the state at 8 p.m. Eastern.

    Back in Lipinski’s district, national powerhouse groups — including Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Human Rights Campaign — waded into the primary, elevating Newman with endorsements and ads.

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee largely stayed out of the primary fray, infuriating Blue Dog Democrats who wanted the campaign arm to officially back Lipinski. Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the DCCC leadership, broke with the party and endorsed Newman.


    Lipinski, who hails from a longtime political family, was slow to spend in his first seriously contested primary. Newman’s campaign and outside groups hammered him in attack ads for weeks without a response on the air.


    Citizens for a Better Illinois, a pro-Newman super PAC, aired ads that attacked Lipinski for opposing same-sex marriage and “pushed to allow businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbians,” the ad narrator said.


    “It’s not Trump, it’s your congressman, Dan Lipinski,” the narrator continued. “You can’t fight Trump when you agree with him.”

    A week before the election, Lipinski went negative on Newman. A TV ad highlighted a Chicago Tribune story that revealed Newman’s former business partner, James Garofalo, pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud and was sentenced to six months in prison in 2010 for his role in an illegal mortgage scheme.

    Lipinski, sitting on more than $1.3 million in the bank, still holds an advantage in name recognition. But turnout is trending high in the district, which is a good sign for Newman. Of the early vote in the district, nearly 40 percent are infrequent voters, compared to 9 percent in 2014, according to a campaign list maintained by the Service Employees International Union.


    The Republican gubernatorial primary also turned negative, as Rauner was forced to attack Ives in TV ads that linked the state legislator to House Speaker Mike Madigan, a controversial Democratic leader and GOP boogeyman.


    Democratic candidate for governor J.B. Pritzker (left) shakes hands with Brian Daly at Manny’s Deli on Tuesday. | James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP


    In the final days ahead of the primary, the Democratic Governors Association began airing a TV ad arguing that Ives is “too conservative” for the state. On the surface it looked like an attack on Ives. But it was designed, in fact, to appeal to conservative voters to back Ives, who would almost certainly be a weaker general election candidate.

    “Meet Jeanne Ives: She’s been rated as one of the most conservative in the state. Ives wants to ban abortions. She has an ‘A’ rating from the NRA, pushing to arm teachers and stop new gun laws. And on Immigration, Ives marches in lock-step with President [Donald] Trump, trying to eliminate protections for undocumented immigrants,” the ad stated.

    Ives’ campaign released internal polling that showed a single-digit race, but public polling has shown Rauner with a double-digit lead.

    Democrats have their own divided primary. Pritzker is facing businessman Chris Kennedy, another deep pocketed Democrat and the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, and state Sen. Daniel Biss. Most polling has shown Pritzker with a comfortable lead over his rivals.


    The primary has been marked by overtones of larger divides within the Democratic Party. Biss and Kennedy have jockeyed for position as the most viable anti-establishment candidate, while Pritzker has remained the front-runner.

    Cementing that position, Hillary Clinton taped a robocall for Pritzker in the final days before the primary. Prtizker has picked up major endorsements from local and statewide politicians, including Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.


    But both Kennedy and Biss have touted their own endorsements. Kennedy is backed by Reps. Danny Davis and Bobby Rush in Illinois, among others, and Rep. Joe Kennedy III, a relative. Biss has been endorsed by the Bernie Sanders-aligned outside group Our Revolution, as well as Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio and Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois.


    Pritzker has faced questions about his views about African Americans after the Chicago Tribune reported on comments the businessman made in discussions with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. And with less than a week until the election, the Chicago newspaper also reported on secret offshore banking accounts connected to Pritzker.

    House primary races will also yield answers on the kinds of Democratic candidates finding success in 2018.


    Seven Democrats are jockeying to take on Republican Rep. Peter Roskam in a red-tinted suburban seat that Democrats are targeting heavily. The district backed Mitt Romney by an 8-point margin in 2012, but Hillary Clinton won it by 7 points in 2016.



    ELECTIONS
    Illinois primary: 5 things to watch


    By NATASHA KORECKI

    Kelly Mazeski, a Barrington Hills Planning Commissioner, got an early boost with an EMILY’s List endorsement, but Sean Casten, a clean energy executive, poured his own cash into a bid.

    A pair of down-state Republicans will pick up their general election opponents in races that Democrats hope to turn competitive in 2018.


    Rep. Mike Bost is expected to face Brendan Kelly, a St. Clair County State’s Attorney, who has outraised the two-term congressman throughout much of 2017 and 2018, nearly matching his cash on hand.


    Democrats Erik Jones, an attorney, and Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, a businesswoman endorsed by EMILY’s List, are vying to take on Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, whose district stretches from the St. Louis suburbs to the state capital in Springfield and Champaign, with rural counties in between.

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    Republican Primary

    CANDIDATE VOTE PCT.
    Bruce Rauner* 164,266 52.2%
    Jeanne Ives 150,521 47.8
    314,787 votes, 52% reporting (5,224 of 10,119 precincts)
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    Win/lead Votes Pct.
    Rauner* 297,840 51.6%
    Ives 279,329 48.4%
    Tie

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    Win/lead Votes Pct.
    Rauner* 341,976 51.7%
    Ives 319,964 48.3%
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