Don Tracy

While, newly-appointed Illinois Republican Chair Kathy Salvi offered assurances that the party would win back both suburban voters and donors, though she wouldn't directly answer questions about whether she supports a national abortion ban.

Illinois Republicans are calling for unity and showing little sign of the internal party struggles that have been brewing for years.

The security perimeter around Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, where the RNC’s marquee events will take place, has turned the downtown area into a maze of checkpoints and barricaded dead-ends for many pedestrians.

After about 3.5 years at the helm of Illinois' Republican Party, Don Tracy cited intraparty fighting as the cause of his resignation.