U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) is actively weighing whether to seek his political fortunes in the U.S. Senate, the Illinois governor’s mansion and even the White House—despite serious questions about whether there’s any future at all for a Donald Trump critic like him in the current GOP, http://CNN.com reported.
Kinzinger—who has said he won’t run for re-election to the U.S. House—told CNN he is considering at least a statewide run if not a presidential one, and that he’ll “probably” make his decision on whether to launch a bid for governor or senator by January.
In a general election, he’d be running in a fairly blue state, where few Republicans have won statewide races in the past decade or so, including former Gov. Bruce Rauner and former U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk.
Kinzinger’s stance on LGBTQ issues is largely unknown. In 2015, he said he accepted the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling affirming same-sex marriage, but thought it should have been a state issue, the conservative publication Illinois Review noted.