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Former President Donald Trump spoke at a rally for Congresswoman Mary Miller, who said: “I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday.” Her campaign later said she meant to say “right to life.”

The former president has endorsed Mary Miller, but this doesn’t mean she will cruise to victory. Rodney Davis has experience with competitive campaigns.

Two members of Congress from Illinois will face each other in the June 28 primary to become the GOP nominee for the newly drawn 15th Congressional District.

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Two Republicans will fight to represent a horseshoe-shaped district that takes in parts of the Metro East and the Quincy area.

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, on Tuesday announced he'll run for a sixth term in Congress, ending months of chatter about his possible entrance in the Republican primary to unseat Gov. JB Pritzker in 2022.

Voting rights advocates had urged Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to wait for U.S. Census data.

Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis won re-election Tuesday against Betsy Dirksen Londrigan. Davis beat his Democratic challenger in a tough rematch of the 2018 race for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District, which includes portions of the Metro East.

At least 15,400 people in the southern Illinois 12th Congressional District are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. And nearly 20,000 use the Marketplace to buy insurance in the 13th Congressional District. Voters will have to decide whether they trust Republican lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the ACA, or if it’s safer to elect Democrats who have vowed to protect and improve the existing act.

The contest for Illinois' 13 district is a rematch of 2018, when Republican incumbent Rodney Davis narrowly beat Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan. A number of the issues are the same in a race that is drawing interest from political observers outside the central Illinois district, which contains portions of the Metro East.