Illinois Republicans laud Trump at state convention

COLLINSVILLE – Illinois Republicans used their state convention Saturday to go all in for former President Donald Trump’s election this fall, adopting a platform attacking Democrats for supporting abortion rights, eliminating cash bail and promoting transgender identity.

“Joe Biden’s vision for the country and J.B. Pritzker’s vision for the state is, it’s a disaster, and may I say, even that it’s evil,” U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Hindsboro, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said of the president and the Illinois governor.

“I think that the left is counting on us to be uninformed, passive, afraid and divided,” said Miller, one of the three downstate Republicans in the state’s 17-member House delegation. “But we have to fight for opportunities and freedom for our children and grandchildren, and we need to fight for a way that honors those that have gone before us that have paid the ultimate sacrifice to secure and maintain our freedom.”

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