In his race to unseat Jan Schakowsky. I bet there is nothing Jan can do to stop him from breaking 30 percent of the vote which would be more than any other Republican has done in that District since 1998.
The District has a Cook Index of D +20 and Jan has never gotten under 70 percent of the vote in the last 12 years. On top of that, Obama took the District 72 – 26 in 2008. I’m not sure why Republicans are wasting their money or time in the 9th, but I hope they keep it up. Nothing like a pointless waste of resources to help other races.
My assumption: if Schakowsky won with 70+% she’d be fine with having IL-09 and IL-10 redistricted so that IL-09 was a D+10 district and IL-10 was impossible for the GOP to win.
Therefore, if the GOP aspires to win IL-10 and hold it, the GOP needs to show it could threaten Schakowsky in IL-09 if she gave up a big block of Dem voters.