Republican State Senator Sam McCann has launched a third party candidacy and has an effort underway to get on the ballot. McCann and Rauner have been at odds over the past three years but Rauner says the Republican and now Conservative Party candidate is in the running because of outside political forces.

 

 

Rauner narrowly won his primary election and had a large majority of his conservative base take their votes to his challenger Jeanne Ives.