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Chairman Don Tracy announced his resignation Wednesday in a shake-up to the party leadership just four weeks ahead of the
“When I took on this full-time volunteer job in February, 2021, I thought I would be spending most of my time fighting Democrats, helping elect Republicans, raising money to pay for more Party infrastructure, and advocating for Party unity.
“In better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intraparty elections,” Tracy continued. “Now however, we have Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats by convincing swing voters to vote Republican.”upon a new chairman being elected into the role by “no later than July 19,” one day after the conclusion of the RNC in Milwaukee. A three-member committee has been set up to find Tracy’s replacement.
The news comes as Illinois Republicans rejected Mark Shaw, Tracy’s vice chairman, at the state’s GOP convention last month. There, Shaw acquired an unauthorized delegate badge, which allowed him to vote for himself to become the new Republican National Committeeman.
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