As for Roskam’s suburban district, its “safeness” could only absorb so many productive republicans moving to other states due to property tax increases for so long. They were all replaced by takers like Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood. This is the story of the entire state of Illinois in microcosm.
The Democratic Machine from Chicago has been expanding its reach into the suburbs and collar counties.
Complacent Republicans and RINOs are dumbfounded when they actually have to face competition. A Cook County Commissioner (Schneider), who also serves as the nominal chair of the Illinois State Republican Party is going down to a humiliating defeat tonight. In Cook County most of the countywide officers ran unopposed, freeing dollars and workers to flood the suburbs. They put $$$ behind candidates in former GOP strongholds.