Ives Reluctantly Says She’ll Vote For Rauner

Ives Reluctantly Says She’ll Vote For Rauner

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The Republican who narrowly lost to Gov. Bruce Rauner in this week’s gubernatorial primary is reluctantly saying she’ll vote for him. But state Rep. Jeanne Ives predicts Rauner will lose and that many of her 342,000 supporters feel betrayed by him. And when it comes to saying who’d be a better a governor, Rauner or Democrat JB Pritzker, Ives struggled to get Rauner’s name out of her mouth in an interview Thursday with WBEZ.