Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin met with the media Monday for only the second time since announcing his candidacy.
Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin met with the media Monday for only the second time since announcing his candidacy, but deflected questions of likely interest to voters that ranged from his past presidential votes and the prospect of another presidential bid by Donald Trump to whether Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
But with Irvin rarely seen in public since becoming a candidate, reporters used the opportunity to hit him with questions about his politics, including his record of voting in the Democratic presidential primaries in 2016 and 2020 even as he’s accused GOP rivals of helping to elect Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Responding to the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion last week that would overturn Roe and its protections for abortion without undue government interference, Irvin noted it was a draft and said it was “irresponsible for us to hypothesize and speculate on what the outcome will be.” Instead, he cited Pritzker’s signature on a bill to repeal the parental notification requirement on abortion as an example of the “extremes” he said that people are concerned about under the Democratic governor. He said his desire to restore the notification requirement was an example of what he would do as governor for abortion opponents.Advertisement
Richard Irvin leaves his press conference at his headquarters in Aurora on May 9, 2022. The press conference grew heated when Irvin refused to answer questions about whether or not he voted for former President Trump and Roe vs Wade.
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