Will County Gazette

Illinois 11th Congressional District candidate Catalina Lauf feels encouraged after the National Republican Congressional Committee targeted the race for a possible flip.

“I knew our campaign had the momentum to take our district and Congress back from the Democrats," Lauf said in a campaign email. "It looks like the National Republican Congressional Committee has taken notice. This is our chance to flip Congress back to the Republicans, fire Nancy Pelosi, and stop the radical socialist agenda dead in its tracks.”

Lauf quoted the National Republican Congressional Committee’s opinion on the race.

“Republicans have the message, the candidates, and the resources needed to take back the majority,” NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer said. “Vulnerable Democrats who chose not to retire will be shown no mercy.

She previously underscored that the state’s “issues are not simply ‘Republican or Democrat’ anymore.” According to Lauf, it is “about Freedom vs. Tyranny and preserving the very bedrock of our Nation. The future of the American Dream is at stake. As a free people we have a choice to make and a duty to preserve liberty for future generations. It’s here and it’s now.”

Lauf who served as an advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce will face a crowded field including Mark Carroll, Jerry Evans, Susan Hathaway-Altman, Andrea Heeg, Juan Ramos, and Cassandra Tanner Miller.

Incumbent congressman Bill Foster is running for re-election, according to Ballotpedia. He first took office in 2008 after winning a special election in the 14th District and was re-districted to the 11th District in 2013. Foster is one of three Congressional Democrats in the Chicago area targeted by the NRCC, Daily Herald reported.

The new 11th congressional district includes the cities of Aurora, Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, Bolingbrook, Burr Ridge, New Lenox, and Joilet. It includes parts of DuPage, Will, and Cook counties.