Illinois’ top political candidates spent the weekend making a final push ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner traveled the length of Illinois — from Carbondale on Saturday to the Chicago suburbs Sunday night.
Polls have consistently shown him trailing Democrat J.B. Pritzker. But at a stop in Morris, the Chicago Sun-Times quoted him calling those polls “baloney.”
Rauner says “nobody thought they’d win” in 2014. “The polls are baloney. These polls don’t mean anything,” he says. pic.twitter.com/y6erD7Pc6B
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Pritzker, meanwhile, stayed in Chicago and the suburbs over the weekend, capping it off with a rally starring former President Barack Obama.
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Top Illinois Democrats are scheduled to fly around the state on Monday.
Pritzker is to be joined by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and attorney general nominee Kwame Raoul, among others.
They’re scheduled to stop in Rockford, Moline, Belleville, Marion, Springfield, and Peoria.
Rauner has just two events on his public schedule, in the Chicago suburbs of Spring Grove and Lisle.
