Divisive rhetoric in campaigns for Illinois governor are the latest sign of an ongoing trend toward increased political polarization nationwide.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, left, campaigns in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2022. Republican challenger state Sen. Darren Bailey on Oct. 31, 2022, in Glen Ellyn.
“There’s been anger before in America. There’s been division before in America. But we have never given up on the American experiment and we can’t do that now,” he said.Biden’s speech on Wednesday came after a violent assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It also was delivered on the same day that aagainst state Sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia, the Republican challenger for governor.
The governor called Bailey a “threat to democracy” who “shouldn’t be let anywhere near the governor’s office.” Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker greets constituent Earlene Dotson as he campaigns Nov. 1, 2022, in Bellwood. “The Democratic Party had both the most conservative and the most liberal people up until 1980. And to a lesser extent, you had variety in the Republican Party” with northeastern moderates and Midwest conservatives both in the fold, said Christopher Mooney, a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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