Guys, IL-3
MIKE FRICILONE Republican
114,399 46.8%
I assume there is late mail vote that will shrink that but....
Wow, I didn't think it would be that close.
What's frustrating about that seat is that we COULD have conceivably won it in the general, IF Congressman Dan Lipinski and his dear ol' retired dad Bill Lipinski had endorsed Fricilone and did "Lincoln Project" type campaign ads in reverse, saying "we're both proud lifelong Democrats but we're voting Republican for the first time ever because Marie Newman is an AOC type Democrat who is just TOO EXTREME for the third district"
If the situation had been reversed some some pro-abortion RINO with years of public "service" had lost the primary to a pro-life Republican, I have no doubt the RINO would then endorse the RAT in the general election out of spite. I believe there are numerous examples of that in past elections (Connie Morella, Dede Scozzafava, Linc Chaffee, etc.)
Looks like all we would have needed is about 20-30% of Lipinski Democrats to "cross over" to Fricilone, and he would have flipped the district to the GOP.
I believe Lipinski opted to sit out the election and endorse no one, though.