Incumbent showdowns: Casten and Newman face off in suburban 6th District primary, while Miller takes on Davis in Trump-influenced contest downstate
U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, left, cheers with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, during a rally with former President Donald Trump at the Adams County Fairgrounds on June 25, 2022.played out in the 15th District, which remapping shifted from the southeastern part of the state to a central and western slice of Illinois. When Miller, a congressional freshman, saw her Oakland home narrowly drawn into a district with another Republican, U.S. Rep.
Just days after taking office, she faced demands for her resignation after saying in a speech that “Hitler was right on one thing: He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ ” While Miller flexed her Trump endorsement and battered her opponent as a supposed RINO — Republican in name only — Davis noted he was one of four co-chairs of Trump’s presidential reelection bid and was among the Republicans who helped write Trump’s tax cut legislation in 2017, which Davis wants to make permanent.
Three of her primary opponents — Geneva financial planner Bobby Piton, Belleville ex-cop Peggy Hubbard and Jimmy Lee Tillman II, son of former Chicago Ald. Dorothy Tillman — had no such hesitation, repeating the false election theft claim during their campaigns.