incumbent, jb pritzker, and darren bailey. we have brought together more than 20 of the states newspapers representing all regions of illinois for these forums. questions for today's interview have been solicited from our newspapers. each will post the coverings of this interview. i am joined on our panel by patrick keck, daily herald opinion page editor, and the joint chief of capital news illinois. this is a conversation and debate. for the benefit -- this is a conversation not a debate. for the benefit of our audience, we will keep the response time to 90 seconds or less. we will give the candidates an opportunity to introduce themselves, we will start with governor it's car. >> thank you i pma for hosting this forum. i am running for reelection to address the kitchen table and issues that are most important issue -- most important to american families. -- and eight credit downgrades. so i got to work, i balance for budgets in a row. paid off all of our overdue bills and earned six credit up rates for the first time in deca

but darren bailey does not want to participate in any of that. he will not work in a bipartisan fashion. we will end up where we were under chris brown with no budget. two years without a budget and building up a build back law that would be very difficult to pay back as it was. >> we have a tight 11:45 close. >> we have a hard stop here and i want to give each of the candidates one last chance to say a final statement. we will start with senator bailey. >> we simply have to ask ourselves one question, are we better off today than four years ago the answer is a resounding no. that is what i have been doing the last four years, educating and informing people of how government here in illinois is now working for them. i was one of the early ones along with state representative terry bryant to stand up and address what we knew then was unemployment fraud. is over $2 billion were paid off in fraudulent unemployment claims. we have asked for an audit. there was no audit to be had. governor pritzker has ignored that. people want their streets to be saf

pritzker's power grab came up in last nights debate with republican challenger darren bailey. >> right now it's looking like your emergency orders are going to last longer than the afghan war. governor, you are making illinois look embarrassing. >> i watched this entire exchange. pritzker seemed hangry. he had no real facts, no real argument and only wild claims and the usual fear mongering. >> it was darren bailey when we had no vaccinations available. they were telling people in south county and all across the state not to wear masks. if you had been governor of the state during the worst parts of covid, tens of thousands of more people would have died. >> isn't that what anthony fauci told people not to do? don't wear masks? he would have urge people to get healthy. may be taken vitamin b3 or zine or lower the bmi, for instance. we knew early on that obesity, hypertensive disorder, diabetes, prediabetes were some of the most common covid morbidities. the left was never happier than win everyone was wearing masks and you've got a bonus, bonus points when you were wearing a mask and l

darren bailey, we played the clip earlier, i tell you what don't count him out in the blue state.ly hard. some of these polls, you and i know how the polls work lately, there was basically suppression poll saying up 15, 16%. i can tell you for a fact that is not the case. if it were, he would not be spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the gubernatorial race and the state of illinois. it is coming. >> todd: ray stevens, was a great show. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. thank you. >> carley: meteorologists here with the fox weather forecast. hello, adam. >> a nice fall morning for a lot of folks this morning as you see tons of spots in the 40s, 50s and the only place cold the mountain west where the temperatures in the 30s this morning. mostly dry across the country as you are seeing fairly clear skies but there is one i want to focus on, off at the state of texas, it will be a day filled with times of severe weather and potential for severe weather. this is a future forecast and it takes you all the way through friday where you see the big storms firing off befo

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darren bailey is taking on j.b.eve parents have the best interest in mind for their children and parents should be making that decision, not doctors or teachers or governors. >> back to virginia, democrats now say they will not move forward with their bill. >> bill: mike, thanks, watching that mike emanuel. thanks for that. >> dana: let's bring in former education secretary bill bennett and fox news contributor. a lot of educational use, failing test scores and also people need to be champions for parents, too. that's what glenn youngkin is doing. why do you think people should come down on this particular issue? >> well, i think it's clear that most parents or most all parents believe that children are the children of parents and of god, not the school system. and therefore critical decisions about the child's life remain with the parent. when they talk about changing pronouns, this is the first step toward this whole discussion of change -- possibly changing gender. that is earth shaking. and belongs to parents to

their public and challenger darren bailey hammered that issue in the first debate. >> the overwhelming public school systems can't read and do math at grade level. "the wall street journal" just gave us an f. >> so many untruths i can to address all of it but let's start with this. he talks about was in the wall street journal. that was provided to them by a right wing carnival barker organization here in the state of illinois. it's wrong, is just wrong. >> laura: they're angry again. one problem there. that organization they decided it's the same stats they came from your own board of education. in no stats are horrific. it's time for him to move down the big lift buffet line out of the governorship. we can't say that the angled and try to warn everyone. there are devastating consequences of keeping children away from school first in a periods of time, especially at risk children from a medical and a standpoint. the decision to put kids back in school should be a slam-dunk yet's. the damage incalculable. academic decline, depression, isolation, suicide, addiction, abuse. >> laura: whe

. >> laura: darren bailey pritzker's challenge joins me now. you were going to be easy to beat, that pritzker has the money and the big operation and a lot of support from unions. so what are they getting wrong? >> well, laura, i want to remind you, and thank you for two years ago in july, you had me on when i sued jb pritzker over his illegal and unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates and i won that lawsuit. and i've been pushing back ever since. and what they got wrong is exactly what i mentioned, his arrogant incompetent blind leadership. people are fed up because of his destroying illinois. >> laura: now, darren, this moment during your debate with pritzker could really sum up the kind of pauseity of issues during his entire campaign. watch. >> how have you improved the lives of chicago's black and brown residents? >> i want to point out at that bailey has surrounded himself with racist misogynistic homophobe i can xenophobic people and organizations including chasing after the chief among them donald trump. >> that's all you can talk abou

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in illinois the democratic governor faces her republican eleanor state senator darren bailey.says illinois cannot afford to spend additional money on migrants sent from texas to chicago. they argue that the state has obligation to help. immigration form is needed. they are calling for a federal solution to address migrants sent to new york city, she will face republican congress in november. zelda and has criticized for deflecting responsibility for the immigration crisis and for soft state polity sees that incentivize illegal entries. but that wrestle closer. as congressman campaigns on crime. it really is america's crime crisis that is affecting him personally. two teenagers shot outside his home david lee miller has details. >> republican congressman was back campaigning for new york governor this morning launching in the club estate parade. he was joined by his twin 16-year-old daughters. sunday afternoon a gunman opened fire outside of the family the family's long island home. >> the bullet was found right here. >> the congressman and his wife were painting, but the daugh

pritzer and darren bailey sparred over crime, and bailey's endorsement for former president donald trumpelected, will not pursue any changes to the state's abortion laws? i need to you answer that? >> that's a fool's errand. the state for 30 years, democrats have had a stranglehold on our legislative process. i've told people time and time again, i signed to unify it -- >> but you're not going to pursue that, change the law -- even by executive order? >> you can't do that by executive order. >> so you're not going to do that and leave it as it is. >> i can't do that in today's climate. >> i think the federal government is looking at that, and certainly if there are federal funds to bring into illinois to help our critics, i would do that. i've got a new name for chicago, i'm going to call it pritzkerville because every one of governor pritzker's ex premium policies are destroying the city. out of control crime. devastation, the fact that corporations are packing up and leaving every day. >> because i'm the first governor in literally nine years to fund the gang crime witness program. inc