Fearing a wipeout, Democrats try to unify around a simple midterm message: Republicans are ‘extremists’ – CNN

That sense was part of what drove Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to spend millions of dollars in the Republican primary boosting a hardline candidate -- because he thought that would make for an easier re-election race, but also because he believes that the only difference between the candidates was that his preferred candidate is more transparent about views that all the others share. That's been a controversial approach within his own party, and one which Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who serves on the January 6 committee, said he found "disgusting."