There's not much chance of Bailey defeating the juggernaut that is J.B. Pritzker in Illinois. There just seems to be something odd about Illinois Republicans downplaying the Holocaust or praising Hitler that is just, shall we say, off-putting.
Darren Bailey made the comments in a Facebook live chat several years ago but is featured in an ad for Democrat J.B. Pritzker.
Source: The Forward
Darren Bailey, the Republican nominee for Illinois governor, said in a video posted to Facebook in 2017 that the Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to abortion on the scale of human atrocities.
“I believe that abortion is one of the greatest atrocities of our day and I believe it’s one of the greatest atrocities probably forever,” Bailey said in the video. “The attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization.”
A state senator representing southeast Illinois, Bailey was endorsed by former president Donald Trump in the GOP primary. Bailey defeated his moderate opponent after receiving a boost from Democratic groups betting that he would be a weaker candidate in the general election against Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker. Bailey represents the same region as U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, who praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at a rally near the Capitol on the morning of January 6, 2021. Miller later apologized.
