Illinois' 13th District Congressional Race Is Nearly Identical To 2018

If the 2020 race for Illinois' 13th congressional seat seems familiar, it’s because in many ways it is.

The contest is a rematch of 2018, when Republican incumbent Rodney Davis narrowly beat Democrat Betsy Dirksen-Londrigan. And 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.

“This is going to be a really close contest,” said Ken Moffett, chair of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville’s political science department. “There’s a lot of money flowing in on both sides from nationwide sources.”

A lot of that attention is tied to the results from 2018, when Democratic congressional candidates picked up 41 seats, including two in Illinois.

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