By: Yasmin Carrillo We are less than 2 months away from the general elections and in 2022, social media is a huge contributing factor to not only following but staying informed on what candidates find important enough to share with the world on their account. Using the rtweet package for the R programming language, this study collected and compared the last 3,200 tweets of J.B Pritzker (3,200 tweets), Darren Bailey (2428 tweets) and Scott Schluter (68 tweets), all running candidates for governor of Illinois. Data for Pritzker and Bailey was retrieved on September 14, 2022, and data for Schluter was…