The two major party candidates for Illinois governor have met for the first time in a general election forum.
Democratic incumbent JB Pritzker and Republican opponent Darren Bailey met in a virtual forum Friday sponsored by the Associated Press. The candidates clashed on most issues, including crime, abortion, the state’s finances, and guns.
Bailey says he will push for a repeal of Illinois’s FOID card law. Pritzker says FOID is needed because it gives the state the ability to conduct “universal background checks” on gun buyers, something he says federal law does not provide.
