{"id":1530701,"date":"2022-06-28T14:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530701"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:48:34","slug":"illinois-primary-a-preview-of-key-midterm-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-primary-a-preview-of-key-midterm-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Primary: A Preview of Key Midterm Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-primary-a-preview-of-key-midterm-races%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illinois\">Illinois<\/a> voters will head to the polls on June 28 for primary races to pick their party\u2019s candidates for 17 U.S. House seats, one U.S. Senate seat, and the state\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p>Among the House seats, five are in Democratic-leaning\u00a0districts that are considered winnable by Republicans in a midterm year when the president\u2019s party typically loses ground, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\">according<\/a> to the nonpartisan, independent Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, Republicans need to flip a net of five House seats to gain the majority.<\/p>\n<p> 13th District <\/p>\n<p>Among the five\u00a0Illinois seats, the 13th\u00a0Congressional District was remapped by the Democratic-controlled state legislature last year to annex more urban centers across hundreds of miles in central Illinois <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/1\/viewer?mid=1qfnRiuOZ3yok6WGvBHZ9P6u3EMy_LwRv&#038;ll=40.26451432420701%2C-85.97779889664461&#038;z=7\">in a long, narrow, snake-like shape<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new district is more Democratic-leaning, prompting the Republican incumbent, Rodney Davis, to seek office in a nearby Republican-friendly district instead.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Budzinski, a former union organizer and former chief of staff of the Office of Management and Budget in the Biden administration, has emerged as the front-runner in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign has raised $1.7 million, far outraising any other candidate in the race, according to the early June campaign finance data published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).<\/p>\n<p>In the Republican primary, Jesse Reising, founder of the Warrior-Scholar Project and a former federal prosecutor, and Regan Deering, a small-business owner and local philanthropist, raised the most money, at $457,751, and $373,730, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They are running on a similar Republican platform, that of pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and border security, according to conversations with both. They told The Epoch Times that the everyday problems under Democratic leadership\u2014inflation, gas prices, and crime rates\u2014offer them a prime opportunity to win a race against Budzinski, a Democratic machine insider.<\/p>\n<p> 17th District <\/p>\n<p>Another district, the 17th, was also redrawn in a long crescent shape from the northwestern corner down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois voters will head to the polls on June 28 for primary races to pick their party\u2019s candidates for 17 U.S. House seats, one U.S. Senate seat, and the state\u2019s governor. 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