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By Illinois Review
 
The 2024 General Election results are out, and it’s a bleak landscape for Republicans across Illinois. Despite a marked surge in conservative voter enthusiasm and strong support for Donald Trump, Illinois GOP leadership—specifically the Illinois Senate Republican Organization (SRO), Illinois House Republican Majority Organization (HRO) and the IL GOP itself – has overseen yet another election cycle marked by crushing losses and baffling strategic blunders. From a slate of uncontested races to weak, establishment candidates, the results underscore a long-standing problem within the party’s leadership structure and knowing how to win.

While Donald Trump gained an additional 4.5 percentage points in Illinois compared to 2020, Republican candidates across the state were unable to translate this into success in local races. The GOP also lost ground in critical areas, especially in Cook County, Will County and other collar counties where Republicans could – and should – be winning more support. This repeated failure can be traced directly to the ineffective consultants and backward-looking strategies endorsed by the IL GOP, SRO and HRO.
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For Illinois Republicans, the results in House and Senate races are a brutal reflection of systemic mismanagement. Out of 118 state House races, Republicans managed only 38 victories while Democrats took 38 seats uncontested. In the state Senate, out of 24 races, Republicans captured just four seats while Democrats went unchallenged in seven districts. These are numbers that expose not just a bad night for Republicans but a trend of negligence that’s gone unchecked.

In congressional races, the story was similarly grim. Out of 17 races, Republicans only won three – a paltry showing for a state with strong conservative pockets. Republican candidates in the state Senate and House are frustrated with many feeling that the party’s strategy directly hampered their efforts.

In traditionally strong Republican areas, voter turnout was high, yet the candidates couldn’t convert that energy into victories. Why? The blame lies squarely with leadership’s failure to support grassroots candidates, opting instead to prop up establishment figures with a record of consistent failure.
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One thing is clear: the IL GOP’s consultants have done nothing to earn their keep and organizations like COR Strategies, Strive Strategies and Arenna LLC have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees without delivering any noticeable success.

Incredibly, the party continues to hire these groups, relying on their advice year after year despite results that show a clear trend of decline for Illinois Republicans. The party’s entrenched reliance on these consultants has become a problem that cannot be ignored if Republicans ever hope to regain even a foothold in the state again.
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