Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, August 26, 2016.
Top Republican donors in Illinois don’t agree on Clinton v. Trump
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump isn’t having much luck winning over Illinois’s top political donors. Of three major Chicago donors to Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign—Ron Gidwitz, Dan Webb, and William Kunkler—only Gidwitz is fund-raising for Trump. Webb has given money to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and Kunkler refuses to help either Clinton or Trump, calling the election a “bad situation.” [Associated Press via Daily Herald]
