More than any other statewide candidate in recent times, Darren Bailey places his faith front and center in his campaign for governor, displaying the evangelical, Christianity found in rural Illinois.
Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey walks in the Twilight Parade with his wife during the first day of the Du Quoin State Fair on Aug. 26, 2022, in Du Quoin, Illinois.
He opens campaign events with a prayer. The door to his campaign bus is adorned with “Ephesians 6:10-19,” a Biblical exhortation to wear the “armor of God” to stand against the devil and “against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Bailey’s prayers have included exhorting God’s help for Illinoisans to “band together in one focus to getting rid of this J.B. Pritzker as governor, someone who has brought much destruction to our state” and for God to “do something amazing to show this nation what you created us for.” “I think it’s very important to say that he is not putting on airs when he does this. He really believes this. And I think for him, it would be a betrayal of his principles to do anything but be who he was six months ago,” Burge said. “He is a charismatic, evangelical Christian and he was doing this long before he was running for governor, so I think for him, there’s no going back.”
People walk past the Darren Bailey campaign bus on Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 18, 2022.
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