{"id":2272370,"date":"2024-06-20T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-illinois-republican-fed-up-with-party-infighting-resigns-weeks-before-rnc\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:04:01","slug":"top-illinois-republican-fed-up-with-party-infighting-resigns-weeks-before-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-illinois-republican-fed-up-with-party-infighting-resigns-weeks-before-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Illinois Republican resigns amid party infighting, weeks before RNC"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftop-illinois-republican-fed-up-with-party-infighting-resigns-weeks-before-rnc%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=2272370&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--><p>The chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, Don Tracy, has resigned from his position due to ongoing internal \u200cconflicts within the party, just\u200b a month\u2063 before the Republican National\u2062 National Convention in Wisconsin. \u200cAppointed \u200din February 2021, \u200bTracy originally anticipated focusing on combating Democrats, \u2064supporting \u2063Republican candidates, fundraising, and \u2062fostering \u2063unity within the party. However, his tenure was predominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-were-all-missing-about-hbos-house-of-the-dragon\/\" title=\"What We\u2019re All Missing About HBO\u2019s \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d\">internal power struggles<\/a> and persistent conflicts, particularly after primary elections and \u2063County Chair elections. In his resignation letter, Tracy expressed disappointment over\u200b the party&#8217;s current state of \u2064division, noting that it has shifted from\u200d its past practice of rallying together\u200b post-elections to now having members more focused on internal disputes rather than defeating Democratic opponents.\u2062 His resignation marks a significant upheaval in the party&#8217;s leadership ahead \u2063of the upcoming convention.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The chairman of the Illinois <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican Party<\/a> has resigned just weeks ahead of the Republican National Convention due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-drags-down-terry-mcauliffe-in-virginia\/\" title=\"Biden Drags Down Terry McAuliffe in Virginia\">intra-party fighting<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Chairman Don Tracy announced his resignation Wednesday in a shake-up to the party leadership just four weeks ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican National Convention<\/a> in neighboring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Wisconsin<\/a>. He pointed to intra-party fighting as the reason for his resignation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I took on this full-time volunteer job in February, 2021, I thought I would be spending most of my time fighting Democrats, helping elect Republicans, raising money to pay for more Party infrastructure, and advocating for Party unity. Unfortunately, however, I have had to spend far too much time dealing with intra party power struggles, and local intra party animosities that continued after primaries and County Chair elections,\u201d Tracy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/06\/19\/illinois-republican-chairman-don-tracy-resigns-just-weeks-before-rnc-in-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wrote<\/a> in his resignation letter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intraparty elections,\u201d Tracy continued. \u201cNow however, we have Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats by convincing swing voters to vote Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tracy noted that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/06\/19\/illinois-republican-chairman-don-tracy-resigns-just-weeks-before-rnc-in-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>resignation was effective<\/a> upon a new chairman being elected into the role by \u201cno later than July 19,\u201d one day after the conclusion of the RNC in Milwaukee. A three-member committee has been set up to find Tracy\u2019s replacement. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Illinois Republicans rejected Mark Shaw, Tracy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-push-for-another-round-of-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"Economists Push for Another Round of Stimulus Checks\">vice chairman<\/a>, at the state\u2019s GOP convention last month. There, Shaw acquired an unauthorized delegate badge, which allowed him to vote for himself to become the new Republican National Committeeman. Still, he was twice rejected by an overwhelming number of delegates at the convention, leading to Shaw\u2019s ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/05\/25\/illinois-republicans-go-all-in-for-trump-at-state-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>dropping<\/a> out of the race. <\/p>\n<p>Tracy said he was uncomfortable with the way things transpired at the convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent events, including the RNC Committeeman election, immediately followed by the retribution sacking of the losing candidate Vice Chair Mark Shaw, a longtime State Party leader and worker, without due process and without taking any step disciplining others for alleged or admitted Convention misconduct, portends a direction of the state party I am not comfortable with,\u201d Tracy wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/illinois-republican-chair-resigns-slams-colleagues-weeks-before-convention-1915090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>dominate<\/a> all levels of the Illinois state legislature and it is unlikely the Republican Party will make significant ground there in the 2024 election cycle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy resigned amid intra-party conflicts, just four weeks before the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin. 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