- GOP Rep. Rodney Davis has won reelection in Illinois 13th Congressional District, after a second challenge from Betsy Dirksen Longrigan, according to Decision Desk HQ.
- Davis narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little over 2,000 votes and a margin of less than one percentage point in the 2018 midterms.
- The district occupies a swath of Central Illinois, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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GOP Rep. Rodney Davis has defeated Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, a Democrat, to win reelection in Illinois’ 13th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.
The candidates
Davis, who has represented the district since 2013, is a conservative but relatively mainstream Republican member who has voted with Trump 91% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight. He serves as the Ranking Member of the House Administration Committee and on the powerful House Agriculture and House Transportation & Infrastructure Committees.
This race was a highly-watched rematch between the two candidates. Davis very narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little over 2,000 votes and a margin of less than one percentage point in the 2018 midterms.
In both her 2018 and 2020 campaigns, Londrigan heavily emphasized protecting and expanding access to healthcare, contrasting her campaign message with Davis’ record of voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017
Both candidates’ campaigns were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March, Londrigan self-quarantined for two weeks after coming into contact with an infected individual, and Davis recently announced he had tested positive for the disease, one of several lawmakers to test positive this year.
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The district:
Illinois’ 13th Congressional District occupies a swath of Central Illinois stretching southwest from the city of Champaign, past the state’s capital city of Springfield and down to the area outside of St. Louis in southwest Illinois.
The district voted for President Donald Trump by a margin of six percentage points, 50% to 44%, in the 2016 election.
The money race
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Londrigan raised $4.3 million, spent $3 million, and had $1.3 million cash on hand while Davis raised $4.1 million, spent $2.4 million, and had $1.7 million in cash on hand.
What some of the experts say:
The race in the general election between Londrigan and Davis was rated as a “toss-up” by Inside Elections and the Cook Political Report, and “leans Republican” according to Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
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