Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance

(PS) Hours after Republican State Senator Sam McCann announces his run for office, Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance. Having spent less than 30 seconds on running a sort google search, I stumbled upon a Rauner camp ad as seen below.

Already off to a bad start. Successfully utilizing the same tactics against Republican Jeanie Ives, Rauners campaign is hoping the same disgraceful stye will work again. However, looking at the math he is clearly failing. With McCann in the race, Rauner needs to be fully focused on a positive swing for his run instead of yet again trying to associate other candidates to Mike Madigan and the Chicago Democratic machine. 

The likelihood that Madigan is helping a Republican candidate run as a 3rd party opponent is slim to none. Madigan has shown again and again in election year that his sole focus is State Representative's elected. As that, is what keeps him in power. With Republican Governor Rauner already in a tough spot with his Republican base there would be no need for Madigan to dabble in Republican politics. 


Rauner has been taking hits from his own party since the primary election ended. The chairman of the Illinois Republican National Hispanic Assembly resigned her position after the shortly after the results. "I cannot in good conscience support Bruce Rauner," Yvonne Sencial Bolton of Will County said in her resignation letter.

With mummers of concern about Rauners core values already, compounded by a 48.6% of his own base voting for Jeanie Ives, Rauner has the potential loss of half of his own republican voting base to compensate for. That number is not even including those voters who do not come out until the general election. 

The current direction of Rauners campaign could mean ruin for Rauner himself.