{"id":1963295,"date":"2023-07-03T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/darren-bailey-could-announce-primary-challenge-to-rep-mike-bost-as-soon-as-july-4\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:36:26","slug":"darren-bailey-could-announce-primary-challenge-to-rep-mike-bost-as-soon-as-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/darren-bailey-could-announce-primary-challenge-to-rep-mike-bost-as-soon-as-july-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Bailey may announce primary challenge against Rep. Mike Bost by July 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdarren-bailey-could-announce-primary-challenge-to-rep-mike-bost-as-soon-as-july-4%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1963295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>2022 Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Nominee Darren Bailey to Challenge Rep. Mike Bost<\/h2>\n<p>Darren Bailey, the 2022 Illinois Republican gubernatorial nominee, is expected to announce a primary challenge to Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) as soon as July 4, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Four sources told the Washington Examiner that Bailey, a former Illinois state representative who ran for governor in 2022 but lost by 12 points to Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), is planning to run for Congress in Illinois\u2019s 12th Congressional District against Bost, the incumbent Republican. Three of the sources said the announcement would come on July 4.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>California Reparations: What Newsom Has Said Ahead of Task Force&#8217;s Final Proposal<\/h3>\n<p>The Washington Examiner obtained an invitation to a July 4 party at Bailey\u2019s family farm. While there is no mention in the invitation of a campaign announcement, two sources said he plans to announce his campaign at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 90% sure Darren is running, and if he does, I am confident he will win our district because he genuinely cares about and represents southern Illinois,&#8221; a source close to Bailey said. &#8220;No one will work or fight harder on the campaign trail or in Congress than Darren Bailey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Bailey and Bost are staunch conservatives and supporters of former President Donald Trump. The two were endorsed by the former president in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/darren-bailey-could-announce-primary-challenge-to-rep-mike-bost-as-soon-as-july-4\/\" title=\"Darren Bailey may announce primary challenge against Rep. Mike Bost by July 4.\">respective 2022 election bids<\/a>. In January 2021, Bost objected to President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory in support of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey talked to the former president in April about a primary challenge to Bost, who has served in Congress since 2015, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Bost has $648,894 on hand as of April 1, according to Federal Election Commission records. He has not had a primary challenger since his first reelection bid in 2018. He won his last general election in 2022 by 50 points. His district is an R+5, according to the Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<p>If Bailey does run, it will set off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-kemp-perdue-locked-in-tight-georgia-gop-primary-both-tied-with-stacey-abrams\/\" title=\"Poll: Kemp, Perdue Locked in Tight Georgia GOP Primary; Both Tied with Stacey Abrams\">contentious primary race<\/a> between two very conservative candidates. Trump&#8217;s endorsement will likely play a huge role in the primary if he decides to get involved and endorse in the race. There are no Democrats who have announced campaigns for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, another former Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate filed to run for Congress, Dan Cox of Maryland. Cox lost his bid for Maryland governor by 32 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bailey never really gained traction against Pritzker, which showed in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gamestop-shares-jump-9-investment-firm-closes-main-fund-after-heavy-losses\/\" title=\"GameStop Shares Jump 9%, Investment Firm Closes Main Fund After Heavy Losses\">double-digit loss<\/a>. Democrats also saw him as the weakest candidate to take on the incumbent governor and funded ads that bolstered Bailey so they could have a better shot at winning. Combined, Pritzker&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic Governors Association dropped $35 million on ads in the Republican primary, hitting Bailey\u2019s more centrist primary opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars to drag Darren Bailey\u2019s corpse across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-voters-deserve-answers-and-accountability-after-potential-red-wave-fizzles\/\" title=\"Republican Voters Deserve Answers and Accountability After Potential \"Red Wave\" Fizzles\">primary finish line<\/a> last year, it\u2019s disappointing to see he thinks he belongs in Congress,\u201d a former Illinois elected Republican said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Bailey, the 2022 Illinois Republican gubernatorial nominee, plans to challenge Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) in the primary, sources say. Bailey, a former state representative, lost the governor race by 12 points to Gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1963296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}