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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 5, 2018, 04:14 AM Nov 2018

Rauner blasts unfavorable polls as 'baloney' on road for GOP candidates [View all]

With just two days to go, embattled Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner told his supporters not to count him out of the race, vowing that polls that show him down by double digits are “baloney.”

And miles away from the Chicago machine — in Grundy, DuPage, Kane and Macon counties — the governor continued to rail against his political nemesis, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan.

The governor and first lady Diana Rauner spent the rainy Sunday on a campaign bus, traveling to cafes and bars in Decatur, Gibson City, Morris and St. Charles. Rauner, too, led a rally for Republicans in one Cook County stop in Orland Park.

At Honest Abe’s Tap & Grill in Morris, the governor spoke of an uphill battle back to a second term, while warning a victory by Democrat J.B. Pritzker will turn the state into a “nightmare.”

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/bruce-rauner-blasts-unfavorable-polls-baloney-road-gop-candidates-election/

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