Gov. Bruce Rauner complained to fellow Republicans about his billionaire Democratic opponent, J.B. Pritzker, plowing $96 million more into his campaign war chest than he and his supporters have.
Rauner, himself a megamillionaire who has largely self-funded his two runs for office, spoke without a trace of irony.
“The guy has never worked an honest day in his life,” Rauner grumbled to supporters nursing beers at a suburban Chicago bar hosting an Illinois GOP rally this week. “He’s never had a job. He’s a member of the silver spoon club to put it nicely.
"He’s a trust fund baby. That’s all he is. The guy is a disaster.”
Polls suggest that Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $3.2 billion, will coast to victory over Rauner in a blue state where Democrats are counting on voter anger with President Donald Trump to bolster their candidates up and down the ballot.
