SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Don Tracy is stepping down as chair of the Illinois Republican Party—and he says party disunity is the reason.
“In better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intra-party elections. Now, however, we have Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats by convincing swing voters to vote Republican,” Mr. Tracy wrote in a June 19 resignation notice.
He pledged to remain party chair until his successor is elected, “preferably no later than July 19, 2024, at 5 [p.m.].”
Noting that the position is a “full-time volunteer job,” Mr. Tracy, who was elected chair in 2021, wrote that he has “had to spend far too much time dealing with intra-party power struggles, and local intra-party animosities that continued after primaries and County Chair elections.”…