Third-term Rep Rodney Davis, a Republican member of the House Agriculture Committee and an early critic of the 2010 school lunch reforms, has a Democratic challenger for 2018, says Roll Call. A lawyer and former House staff worker, Erik Jones, has entered the race against Davis in the Republican-leaning district in downstate Illinois.
“Edwards previously worked for the state attorney general and touted his work as counsel for the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee,” said Roll Call. It said Jones criticized the vote by the GOP-controlled House to repeal and replace the 2010 healthcare law, suggesting one option would be to let people buy into Medicare.
Davis won re-election with 60 percent of the vote in 2016. The 13th House District stretches southwestward from Bloomington, Champaign and Decatur in central Illinois to the St Louis metropolitan area. Roll Call rates the race as “likely Republican.”