WASHINGTON – POLITICO updated its list the top 10 most threatened incumbent governors Friday, and Illinois' Republican Governor Bruce Rauner remains at the top of the list.
Here's how POLITICO's Daniel Strauss sees the race:
Illinois — Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is running for reelection. (Previous ranking: 1)
Rauner remains the most vulnerable governor in America — but much has changed ahead of the March 20 primary. Rauner's primary challenger, state Rep. Jeanne Ives, is running incendiary television ads aimed at turning conservatives against the incumbent. But things may be even more unsettled on the Democratic side: Controversial comments by self-funding front-runner J.B. Pritzker about African-Americans has widened an opening for his opponents in the primary. State Sen. Daniel Biss has emerged as a top competitor to Pritzker in the primary and points to polls of him leading Rauner in the general election. Both Rauner and Biss have been forced to begin airing attack ads against their two main primary rivals. Rauner and Pritzker, both billionaires, are still likely to win their bruising primaries, setting up the general election to be among the most expensive state races in the nation's history.
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