Not a bad kid. Pretty hard worker, just a little naive. And he might be a MAGA hybrid seeing as though he is a subconscious socialist.

This should come as no surprise, but IL is heavily dominated by Chicago metro. Outside of that region, it's a ton of red with very little blue. 2020 map:

In 2022 the Republican candidate for Governor came within 2.5% here in Oregon. But honestly the environment for an R was about as good as it will ever be that year. Dobbs had essentially no impact here, Republicans picked up legislative seats, a congressional seat flipped red, and we were coming off a HORRIBLE two term Democrat governor. It's hard to explain how bad 2020-2022 was for the state as a whole. If a Republican was ever going to win Oregon it would have been 2022.

Interesting. Of course he lost the popular vote by 7M in 2020 so a lot of ground to make up.

Sounds like a future son-in-law you can be proud of!