Weak Fundraising, Ives’ “Controversial Political History,” and Staunch Defense of Trump “Dimming” GOP Prospects in IL-06
It’s been a rough couple of months for “flame-thrower” Jeanne Ives. Although she won her primary last month, local editorial boards don’t like her. In fact, the majority of them endorsed her opponent.
Chicago Daily Herald
“On Ives, we’re not convinced. For all her promises to work with Democrats to fashion workable solutions to such stubborn problems facing the nation as health care, immigration, climate change, foreign policy and more, we still see in Ives a candidate more eager for combat than cooperation.”Northwest Herald
”Ives… has not always expressed her passion for social conservatism well, and it would haunt her in November. […S]he certainly would be portrayed as too extreme in a general election.Chicago Sun-Times
Ives “is not a unifier.”
And Ives heads into November with a severe cash-on-hand disadvantage against Rep. Sean Casten. First quarter filings show Casten with more than $2.5 million on-hand compared to Ives’ $366,000.
That’s not all. Ives continues to be dogged by “ethics slip-up[s],” including plagiarizing a Chicago Tribune article, “lift[ing] two sentences nearly verbatim” from an article for a fundraising email, and soliciting campaign contributions that clearly break the legal federal limit.
What does all of this mean for Ives? Politico reports that “Republican prospects are… dimming [in the district] where the party nominated [a] weaker-than-expected standard-bearer. Democratic Rep. Sean Casten will face Jeanne Ives, who ran a scorched-earth 2018 governor campaign attacking transgender and abortion rights — stances that may not endear her to suburban swing voters.”
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