Rep. Mary Miller beats Rep. Rodney Davis in GOP main for brand new Illinois district

Conservative firebrand and freshman Rep. Mary Miller managed to edge out Rep. Rodney Davis within the heated Republican main battle for Illinois’s fifteenth Congressional District on Tuesday.

Her win comes within the wake of former President Donald Trump holding a rally within the district on Saturday in an effort to spice up her odds within the neck-and-neck race.

Trump opted to endorse Miller within the race regardless of Home GOP leaders urging him to remain impartial earlier this 12 months.

The race was seen as a litmus take a look at for the ability of the previous president’s endorsement after a combined report in primaries this cycle.

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Davis conceded the race late Tuesday.

Miller opted to run within the deep-red district, which encompasses a lot of central and southern Illinois, regardless of her house being drawn outdoors of its strains. Davis was first elected to his congressional seat in 2012 and is now the highest Republican on the Home Administration Committee.

Davis was endorsed by key Republicans, together with Illinois Reps. Darin LaHood and Mike Bost, in addition to former Rep. John Shimkus, his previous boss. Thirty-one out of 35 GOP county leaders, a slew of state lawmakers and teams — together with the Illinois Farm Bureau ACTIVATOR, the Illinois Police Benevolent and Protecting Affiliation, and each the Illinois and U.S. Chambers of Commerce — additionally backed him within the race, whereas outdoors teams together with the Membership for Progress spent roughly $4 million within the race to spice up Miller's candidacy.

The race turned more and more contentious as Election Day neared, with Miller making an attempt to color Davis as a “RINO,” or Republican in title solely, accusing him of supporting the Jan. 6 choose committee, which he voted in opposition to, and arguing in assault advertisements that he had a softer line on gun rights and abortion.

Davis defended his report as a conservative and highlighted a string of controversies involving Miller, together with Miller saying that the Supreme Courtroom resolution to overturn Roe v. Wade was a “victory for white life” throughout a weekend rally with Trump within the district, having had a convicted pedophile help together with her marketing campaign, and saying that “Hitler was proper about one factor” throughout a 2021 speech.

Shortly after her weekend remarks drew controversy, Miller asserted she misspoke on the Trump rally and meant to say, “Victory for proper to life.” Miller additionally beforehand apologized following her remarks on Hitler. Her marketing campaign didn't reply to requests for touch upon whether or not the convicted pedophile remains to be related together with her marketing campaign.

Miller is predicted to win the secure Republican seat in November handily.