Over the past few months, Jim has highlighted Bobby Schilling’s campaign against Rep. Phil Hare. Schilling, a Republican running in Illinois’s 17th congressional district, briefly stopped by National Review’s Washington office earlier today. Schilling, who owns a family pizza shop, gave us a little update from the trail. He tells us that Reagan Democrats are a big part of why his district could turn red come November.
IL-17 runs along the western and southern parts of the state. Hare, a former Democratic House aide, won the seat in 2006. Hare is best known for telling voters that with regards to Obamacare, “I don’t worry about the Constitution.” That quote went viral and has received nearly 500,000 views on YouTube.