GOP Rep. Rodney Davis wins reelection in Illinois' 13th Congressional District after a challenge from Democrat Betsy Londrigan

• GOP Rep. Rodney Davis has won reelection in Illinois' 13th Congressional District after a second challenge from Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, according to Decision Desk HQ.
• Davis narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little more than 2,000 votes and a margin of less than 1 percentage point in the 2018 midterms.
• The district occupies a swath of Central Illinois.
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GOP Rep. Rodney Davis has defeated Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, a Democrat, to win reelection in Illinois' 13th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.

The candidates

Davis, who has represented the district since 2013, is a conservative but relatively mainstream Republican member who has voted with President Donald Trump 91% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight. He serves as the ranking member of the House Administration Committee and on the powerful House Agriculture and House Transportation and Infrastructure committees.

This race was a highly watched rematch between the two candidates. Davis narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little over 2,000 votes and a margin of less than 1 percentage point in the 2018 midterms.

In both her 2018 and 2020 campaigns, Londrigan heavily emphasized protecting and expanding access to healthcare, contrasting her campaign message with Davis' record of voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

Both candidates' campaigns were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March, Londrigan self-quarantined for two weeks after coming into contact with an infected person, and Davis recently announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus, one of several lawmakers to test positive this year.

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The district

Illinois' 13th Congressional District occupies a swath of Central Illinois stretching southwest from the city of Champaign, past the state's capital city of Springfield and down to the area outside St. Louis in southwestern Illinois.

The district voted for Trump by a margin of 6 percentage points, 50% to 44%, in the 2016 election.

The money race

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Londrigan raised $4.3 million, spent $3 million, and had $1.3 million cash on hand while Davis raised $4.1 million, spent $2.4 million, and had $1.7 million in cash on hand.

What some of the experts say

The race in the general election between Londrigan and Davis was rated as a "toss-up" by Inside Elections and The Cook Political Report, and "leans Republican" according to Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.