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Downstate congressional race highlights the GOP’s hard move to the right

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Darren Bailey is challenging five-term U.S. Rep. Mike Bost in Illinois' 12th Congressional District. The district is among the most conservative in the nation, its ideology and culture symbolized by the soaring 198-foot-tall Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham. Conservatives have moved the GOP steadily to the right, from Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party movement.

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Chicago Tribune

Downstate congressional race highlights the GOP’s hard move to the right

MARION, Ill. — The day after former President Donald Trump endorsed his congressional opponent, a scorned Darren Bailey who had deeply coveted Trump’s backing took to Facebook to deliver another of his near-daily video devotionals to supporters. “I am so confident of victory because I believe that you know that you’re not going to let an endorsement stand in the way of you doing the right thing — that you’re going to show up, you’re going to vot…

2 months ago·Chicago, United States

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