Following leak of Supreme Court draft overturning Roe, spotlight shines even brighter in Illinois governor's race on suburban women voters.
Students and activists rally outside the DePaul University Loop campus on May 3, 2022, in reaction to the leaked draft decision from Supreme Court that showed their intention to overturn Roe v. Wade.
But in the days since, their positions on abortion, as well as the positions of other candidates for governor, gained new significance due to the leaking last week of the U.S. Supreme Court conservative majority’s draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade and the right of women to obtain an abortion with minimal government interference.Even before a Republican challenger is picked in the June 28 primary to face Pritzker in the Nov.
In recent statewide elections, suburban voters have constituted the largest geographic demographic of people casting a ballot. In 2018, 53% of the state’s ballots were cast in the suburbs throughout Illinois, with urban voters making up 26% and rural voters 21%, according to the VoteCast survey. And suburban women make up about 28% of the overall statewide vote in the past two general elections, the largest gender-based geographical voting bloc in the state, the survey showed.
Anne Wick, who co-founded a group of progressive women in suburban Downers Grove, said the prospective court opinion is a motivator for suburban women regardless of partisanship. Still, Pritzker’s predecessor, Rauner, lost GOP conservative support and almost his renomination when he signed into law legislation thatAll five of the major Republican candidates for governor declare themselves as opponents of abortion. Bailey of Xenia opposes abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest, while Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said he supports exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
“God, in His creation, He intended, you know, the family unit to be headed by the dad. The dad is supposed to be out, you know, teaching his children hard work, ethics, honesty and integrity,” Bailey“You remove that,” he said, “and then you begin to deplete everything, morality, everything of integrity, and our children wander around lost, waiting for a Democrat Party to give them everything and teach them their ways.
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