Illinois state Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, announced early Thursday that he plans run as a third-party candidate for governor of Illinois, with this new announcement we will see more issues for Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.
Rauner is widely viewed as an underdog in the race for the state's highest office against billionaire J.B. Pritzker. McCann's campaign with the Conservative Party stands to draw votes away from Rauner, who had alienated a lot of his conservative base. Rauner barely defeated state Rep. Jeanne Ives in the Republican primary this March.
"When I announced I was not going to run for Senate, I said the Republican Party under Rauner was unrecognizable to me," McCann said in a statement. "Rauner has smeared the reputations of proven conservatives and abandoned the principles that millions of Illinois' working families hold dear: economic liberty, traditional values, and law and order."
This will be a new venture surly causing a huge shake up in our Illinois gubernatorial race this coming fall.
