DOWNERS GROVE — Doug Truax won his third GOP organization endorsement for U.S. Senate, his campaign announced Tuesday. The DuPage County-based Addison Township Republican Organization chose Truax, a West Point graduate, over State Senator Jim Oberweis after hearing from both candidates recently.
The winner of the March 2014 GOP primary will face U.S. Senator Dick Durbin in November.
The Federation of Illinois Young Republicans voted 70.9 percent in favor of Truax over Oberweis at the group’s statewide convention Saturday in Bolingbrook and the Palatine Township Republican Organization voted 64 percent for Truax over Oberweis last week after hearing both candidates speak.
“What these votes mean is that Republicans are yearning for a new kind of conservative candidate who can build a wide enough coalition of young people, men and women, rural, suburban and urban voters to defeat Dick Durbin,” Truax said.
