Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his Republican challenger Darren Bailey used an hourlong debate Thursday finding different ways to call each other "liar" with Election Day fewer than five weeks away.
The Democratic incumbent and the southern Illinois state senator disagreed over the other's handling of or position on the state budget, regulating assault-style weapons, abortion and crime — particularly the justice system overhaul Pritzker signed last year known as the SAFE-T Act.
To Pritzker, the upstart Republican and relative legislative newcomer is a "hypocrite" on the issues for which he attacks the governor.
According to Bailey, Pritzker's handling of crime, property taxes and education is "crushing" the state, "all because J.B. Pritzker is hell-bent on becoming the most radical leftist governor in America. ...This man is dangerous." Pritzker, elected in 2018 amid the aftermath of a budget stalemate that left the state billions of dollars in debt, boasted before an audience at Illinois State University in Normal of the way he paid down debt and balanced the budget for four years.
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