Hosting multiple Trump rallies across the state places Gary Rabine as potential 2022 statewide candidate
Yesterday’s (10/5) POLITICO Illinois Notebook column floated several Republican names as possible challengers to J.B. Pritzker in 2022. In what would likely be a crowded Republican primary field (think 2006 and 2010), the first tier candidates listing is no surprise:
- Congressman Adam Kinzinger
- Cubs co-owner and Republican National Committee finance Chairman Todd Ricketts
- Chicago attorney and Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter
Among second tier Republicans mentioned yesterday are:
- State Representative Darren Bailey (who’s favored to be elected state senator next month)
- State Senator Paul Schimpf
- Businessman Gary Rabine of Woodstock
As the POLITICO column quickly points out, this is the kind of talk that will not begin in earnest until November 4, or shortly after Election Day once all the races have been called.
Doubtful all six of these men will run for the same statewide office, especially with the likelihood the secretary of state office is open (or with an appointed incumbent) given 86 year old Jesse White would not be expected to seek a 7th term (though not many thought he’d run at age 84 for reelection, but he did).
The outcome of the 2020 election will point to other potential candidacies to 2022, including a U.S. Senate race, and if Joe Biden wins the presidency, if Senator Tammy Duckworth is a Biden Administration cabinet appointee to either Veterans Affairs or Homeland Security secretary, a U.S. Senate special election could take place in 2022 along with the regular election (like back in 2010).
The two state senators, if they were to run for statewide office in ’22, would have to vacate their seats, since redistricting means all 59 state senate seats are up for election.
Given Rabine’s McHenry County roots, his potential candidacy will be something to watch.
Hosting multiple Trump rallies across the state, including a private event in Woodstock at the end of August and a public event in St. Charles at the end of September, and likely others, is how one builds name identification for a possible future candidacy.
The POLITICO column also pointed Rabine has the ear of Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA.
Very early speculation concerning 2022, but something to think about as conversations about 2022 begin in earnest in 4 weeks.
The POLITICO column can be viewed here.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
After Trumpism is defeated around the country, people who tried to jump on the MAGA or the KAG or the MAGA,A train will not be emerging as the new leaders of anything, much less the State of Illinois.
Best way to have a future in the post Trump world is to run far far far away from that parasite.
Lauf as a Lt. Gov????
What??
She’s Sarah Palin without the brains (or resume).
Wow, around this time in 2016, Oh, you must have been measuring for the furniture of a Hillary Clinton White House.
Take the advice people should have taken 4 years ago, don’t count one’s chickens before they hatch.
Hispanic voters across the country are responding to Trump’s strongman approach to running our country, and the advantages (pre-pandemic) the jobs market had. Stock market getting back to pre-pandemic highs, so hope you are not in a tall building 4 weeks from tonight.
I admit, Lauf as a Lite Gov can be seen as a stretch, but no more than her running for Congress.
Her first head-to-head with a seasoned Democrat last week was not pretty, and she has a lot to learn.
Let’s say you are right about Biden winning, you think Duckworth will be in a cabinet position if Biden asked?
Jim Oberweis could run. 😁
Are these Republican office holders going to give up their safe districts, to run for governor? 🤔😐
All of them would have a tough time in Cook County too. ☹️
This may be the most uninspired pool of candidates in the last thirty years.
The Cubs guy is probably one of the few people who would have a shot in a statewide election.
Oh, what elected office did Jay Bob hold before becoming the tax hiking crowned prince of burgers??
Sure I think if he asked her to serve in his cabinet then she would answer the call.
2020 is not 2016 for a number of reasons. I have started those reasons many times on these boards. You know it’s not 2016. Trump seems to be doing well with Hispanic voters in Florida who have ties to Cuba. He is not doing well with Hispanic voters n AZ and Texas. Problem for Trump in Florida is he’s losing more older voters than gaining Hispanic voters.
This map is going to look like a huge swimming pool. Hopefully Texas gets called for Biden on election night and we can all sleep well.
Veteran Paul Schimpf could run and have Christina Meyers come back to run as Lt Gov! She was dedicated and worked on his campaign. Then Run to abolish the Lt Gov position and actually keep the promise! ( unlike liar and failure Bruce Rauner who gave us J.B. Pritzker!)
Darren Bailey has made Nat’l. news as fiscal Constitutional Conservative, who demonstrates pro-business and pro-school choice! Maybe his winning/fighting lawyer Tom DeVore as his running mate for double 1-2 punch to Pritzker.
Everyone locally who knows who Rabine is, knows that his wife is very ill. What kind of self-centered heel would run for Governor with an ailing wife, not to mention traveling/campaigning with a single woman younger than his own daughters?
It’s rather cold hearted to even suggest that he would do this!
The first tier are all RINOs….. and crooks.
Oh on, where are you getting your LSD?
Oak Harp, nothing cold hearted in what I wrote, and I guess POLITICO Shia Kapos gets an assist as her column was my source to bring up Rabine’s name (and she must not have known about his wife either).
Let’s face it, Rabine doing what he is doing is not a campaign for himself, but it gets people talking.
I’m sure he’ll decide what to do what’s best for him and his family, and sure his people will get word to anyone they need to in order to stop any speculation.
Thank you, John Lopez (and for letting us know this came from Politico’s Shia Kapos.)
Cal, that’s not Kirk or Turning Point.
Please give us some real choices, not any of these losers.
Prior to becoming governor, Jay Bob ran for 9th District Congressperson in 1998, trying to succeed retiring Sid Yates. 😐
Results:
State Representative
Jan Schakowsky 45.14%
State Senator Howard Carroll 34.40%
Jay Bob Pritzker 20.48%
😁
Jan Schakowsky (D-Isr) could out ugly even the horrid RBG.
Generally, Mexicans won’t support Trump, because of The Wall.
Puerto Ricans won’t support Trump, because of statehood and hurricane relief. 😐
The Left likes to cite the Declaration as if it were Law; in fact it is a rhetorical document, an open letter to King George, and has no force of law itself.
The Constitution is the only basis of American Law, and it makes no rhetorical declarations of equality, etc.
The true, real America, as it was originally constituted by the Founders, lasted from 1776 to 1861,and was then eclipsed by an ersatz America, a Minocracy.
By this thesis, we could dismiss the entirety of post-1865 America as bogus, rather than try to band-aid it.
More and more Whites have had enough of what I’ve come to refer to as Battered White Syndrome and are waking up.
Maybe not in numbers satisfactory to all. But it’s a myth we need everyone.
We just need a critical mass. And that’s forming.
Hence the hostile elite’s hysteria from Hollyweird to the U. of I, from the1617 Project to BLM, from ANTIFA to the DNC and Sen. Durbin’s prize handlers.
Either way, with all of the anti-White violence, Whites are coming to realize that, since from the perspective of anti-Whites there’s nothing we can do to appease them, and since we already know what it’s like to be hated and hit, we might as well fight back.
And that will trigger a real, shooting war, a civil war the leftist Reds like Casten cannot possibly win.
Get your ammo now, while you still can.
Out of that lineup, a lot of fakes.
Dante is correct.
Eddie – you’ll have to explain that to Puerto Rico’s governor who just endorsed President Trump.
Little Eddie has no idea of what he speaks.
Good to see that others are finally awakening to his foolish juvenile ramblings.
Mickey, Charlie Kirk is the guy with the yellow tie in that picture.
Correcting, thank you for pointing Charlie Kirk out in the 2013 picture.
Mickey, given the pic Cal added to the article from the archives is over 7 years old, understandable an 18 years young Charlie Kirk looks a little different than the current 26 years old Kirk.
DisHonestAbe1, you are the foolish juvenile rambler here. ☹️
Chase, usually mainland Puerto Ricans vote Democratic. 😐
Puerto Ricans can have statehood anytime they want.
But at the ballot box, when offered, they vote against time and again.
False issue.
✌️😎
Some Republican Senators don’t want Puerto Rico and Washington, DC statehoods saying Democrats would always control Congress. 🤔
Eddie, the Republican opposition only applies to DC statehood and doubtful the DC statehood bill, H.R. 51, would stand up in Courts since legal precedent set on DC over a century ago and land must be retroceded back to Maryland just like the Virginia portion was in the middle 1800s.
Puerto Rico could be made a state at such a time when the Puerto Ricans want it, and it’s been a few decades since the last plebiscite.
John, PBS says there’s a referendum on Puerto Rico this November.
McSally says no to statehood on both.
What McNally says immaterial if she doesn’t survive her challenge. Puerto Rico has not supported statehood in the past. It’ll be interesting to watch.
Give PR back to Spain, we stoled it and now it’s time to own up to the BIG 1898 mistake and return stolen property.
We’ll feel a lot better returning that 3rd world hot mess.
Puerto Rico as a state would drop millions and millions more on to our welfare roles. What an unmitigated disaster it would be. Look for it to happen next year.
I will stop Puerto Rican statehood.
Love the Falcon Crest father-and-son tag team posting comments.
Puerto Rico has been a United States possession for over a century and the USA won Puerto Rico fair-and-square along with the Phillipines and Cuba, the latter two were granted independence.
Historically, the Puerto Ricans have voted down statehood, but if this is what Puerto Ricans want, we will have our 51st state. It’s been over 60 years since a star added to the USA flag.
It’s long overdue and the longest stretch in our country’s history without adding a new state (47 years, 1912-1959 was previous record).
Puerto Rican statehood would be completely legal under the Constitution, D.C.
Statehood under the Democrats’ blatant plan to pack the U.S. Senate, is not and would not survive a court challenge based on legal precedence.
Maybe statehood is a good idea.
Depending on author bias, Puerto Ricans supported statehood at 50% or 60%, but at 23% or 30% turnout. 🤔😮
Good thinking Lopez, 2 more Democrat senators and 5 More Demo Congressmen.
When they find out they’ll have to start to pay income tax the vote will be to keep thins as they are!
Puerto Rico.
A rats’ nest we should have dumped like Cuba or the Philippines.
We did Spain a big favor.