DOWNERS GROVE, IL — Updated at 9:37 a.m.
Catalina Lauf was projected to win the Republican race for Illinois’s 11th Congressional District in the 2022 General Primary Election, according to NBC News late Tuesday. Six Republicans faced off on Election Day, hoping to earn a chance to try to unseat Rep. Bill Foster (D, IL-11) in November.
Lauf declared victory on her Twitter page around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
The Republicans who ran for a chance to pursue the 11th Congressional District seat are:
- Mark Carroll
- Jerry Evans
- Susan Hathaway-Altman
- Andrea Heeg
- Catalina Lauf
- Cassandra Tanner Miller
The results of the Republican race for Illinois’s 11th Congressional District in the 2022 General Primary Election were as follows as of 6:12 a.m., with 91 percent of precincts reporting (Unofficial results via the New York Times. Check back for updates as results come in).
- Carroll: 9,822 votes/20.1 percent
- Evans: 10,997 votes/22.5 percent
- Hathaway-Altman: 5,909 votes/12.1 percent
- Heeg: 3,297 votes/6.7 percent
- Lauf: 15,189 votes/31.1 percent
- Tanner Miller: 3,671 votes/7.5 percent
Mark Carroll
Mark Carroll earned a liberal arts degree from Hillside College and served as an intern and staff assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, per his website. Carroll later graduated from law school at Northern Illinois University.
Carroll’s political platform states that he would “support a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman” and asserts that life begins at conception. Carrol’s campaign also supports securing the U.S. border.
Jerry Evans
Jerry Evans earned a degree in music from Wheaton College and founded a music school. As a musician, Evans has performed on six Christian albums, per his website.
Evans’s campaign priorities include supporting law enforcement, vaccine choice and veterans’ services. He also aims to secure the United States border and supports pro-life and pro-family legislation, according to his campaign website.
Susan Hathaway-Altman
Susan Hathaway-Altman has spent more than a decade working in the fields of business and supply chains.
Hathaway-Altman describes herself as a “devoted Catholic with pro-life and Midwest values,” according to her Susan for Congress campaign page. Hathaway-Altman supports closing U.S. borders and supporting law enforcement. She is also in favor of funding mental health programs to help make schools safer, her website states.
Andrea Heeg
Andrea Heeg earned her Bachelor’s degree in communication from St. Norbert College before receiving her Master’s Degree in speech communication from Eastern Illinois University. Heeg’s career includes experience in business consulting, consumer banking and marketing, according to her website.
Heeg’s campaign website states that she aims to “restore parents as the rightful decision makers in their children’s education.” Her platform also supports local law enforcement and “strong national defense to deter those who would harm America and our allies.”
Catalina Lauf
Catalina Lauf works in the private sector for a startup company and was a Presidential political appointee at the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to her campaign website.
Lauf’s political platform states, “As the daughter of an immigrant from Central America, my family and I know the value of a safe and secure border and the need for legal immigration.” She supports removing Critical Race Theory from public schools and states that she is “a vocal opponent of the Left’s radical position in support of late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion, and infanticide,” per her website.
Cassandra Tanner Miller
Cassandra Tanner Miller serves on the Domestic Fatality Review Commission in Illinois and Colton’s Task Force, a coalition she started after her 18-month-old son was murdered by her first husband in 2019, her website explains.
Miller’s campaign platform states, “I’m not a politician. I’m a mom, running for Congress to put the focus on common sense, kitchen table issues that people actually worry about.” She supports a balanced budget and opposes defunding law enforcement.
Most election results will be official after canvassing on July 19, according to the Will County Clerk’s Office. Provisional ballots cast on Election Day and all remaining vote by mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day will be counted by provisional count on July 12.
