{"id":11826,"date":"2025-07-30T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:32:50","slug":"danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Davis to announce he won\u2019t seek House reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois is expected to announce Thursday he won\u2019t run for reelection in 2026, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss his plans in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Davis \u2014 at 83, one of the oldest members of Congress \u2014 plans a news conference Thursday morning where he is also likely to make an endorsement for what is expected to be a highly competitive race.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-term lawmaker represents downtown Chicago, its growing West Side and some western suburbs. He is known as a champion of civil rights, affordable housing, prison reentry and health care issues \u2014 as well as having a sonorous voice and calm demeanor.<\/p>\n<p>While the deep-blue district has long been considered a Black seat \u2014 it includes a portion of Chicago\u2019s South Side, the traditional heart of the city\u2019s African American population \u2014 that population has declined due in part to gentrification. While African Americans still have a 42 percent plurality, the white, Latino and Asian populations are fast-growing.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. La Shawn Ford has already announced he\u2019s running and is expected to get an endorsement from Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Others who have announced they&#8217;re running include former County Commissioner Richard Boykin, businessman Jason Friedman and Marine Corps officer turned comedian John McCombs. Walter Burnett Jr., who until recently was a Chicago alderman, and state Rep. Kam Buckner are among many other potential candidates expected to enter the race.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019 announcement adds to an already unusually turbulent 2026 congressional landscape in Illinois. Four of the state\u2019s 17 House districts are poised to be open seats, with two Democratic incumbents \u2014 Reps. Robin Kelly and Raja Krishnamoorthi \u2014 running for the Senate seat being vacated by Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n<p>Davis serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and has served in leadership roles in the Congressional Black Caucus. Before he was elected to Congress, he served as a Chicago alderman and a Cook County commissioner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois is expected to announce Thursday he won\u2019t run for reelection in 2026, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss his plans in advance. Davis \u2014 at 83, one of the oldest members of Congress \u2014 plans a news conference Thursday morning where he is also likely to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}