* The Pritzker campaign sent audio and this transcript of Darren Bailey speaking to WGN’s John Williams yesterday…
REPORTER: ‘Bailey would not say whether he believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen to elect Democrat Joe Biden.’ This is the same sort of question that the nominee for the Fed chairmanship is being asked on Capitol Hill right now. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? I don’t know how hard that is to answer, but it’s become a bit of a litmus test these days. What’s your best answer to that question?
DARREN BAILEY: Well, my best answer to the question is that get over it. They’re using this to try to trip us up, because anytime we have an opportunity to begin to unify as a nation, to begin to unify as a state, they keep going back to this nonsense. It is absolutely 100% irrelevant. It doesn’t matter anymore.
REPORTER: It does matter if the election was stolen, though. I mean, if the election was stolen, that’s a four-alarm fire. So I think it matters, but it’s right. It does matter if the election was stolen…
BAILEY: Right, but somebody somewhere, and that’s what I hope to do, is a, you know, voter ID that cleaning, giving people confidence in the electoral process again. That is what must happen. And until we do that, until we do that, we’re, you know, you’re right. We’re just throwing out talking points.
REPORTER: I’m wasting your time now, but I just wish you had said, yes, he lost the election. That would have unified Illinois or a lot of people, if that’s what you want to do.
- H-W - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:15 pm:
Kudos to the reporter. That is how we unify. We openly deny false statements and lies. Openly, not by deflecting to alternative theses.
- ste_with a v_en - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:17 pm:
The same people who love to ask “What is a woman?” can’t handle “Who won the 2020 Election?”
- twowaystreet - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:29 pm:
A real profile in courage.
- Candy Dogood - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:34 pm:
===It is absolutely 100% irrelevant. It doesn’t matter anymore.===
Ah yes, the Shaggy response.
- Pundent - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:44 pm:
Well so much for Bailey’s tack to the middle. This is a softball question. They only get tougher from here.
- Dotnonymous x - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 2:58 pm:
Stop trying to trip Darren up…he’s not used to low traction city shoes.
- BE - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 3:27 pm:
Wow, the same response he gave (in essence) to the Highland Park shooting, while they were still looking for the shooter.
And he thinks this is the way to show he is a ‘non-Trump’ Republican?
- Dotnonymous x - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 3:30 pm:
Q. What are Bailey’s chances of being elected Governor of Illinois?
A. Get over it.
- Blue Dog - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 3:55 pm:
sounds like a very unbiased reporter.
- Excitable Boy - Wednesday, Apr 22, 26 @ 3:59 pm:
- sounds like a very unbiased reporter. -
It’s not biased to expect candidates to acknowledge facts.