Interview: State Rep. Mark Batinick (R)

By many measures, Democrats had a pretty good election year in Illinois — especially in the Chicago suburbs. The two freshman members of Congress held on; they picked up a seat in the state Senate, and they did really well in DuPage, Lake, Kane and WIll counties.

But The 21st's guest says there was one significant set of exceptions: Democrats running for the Illinois House of Representatives. There was talk, before the election, of Democrats possibly picking up a half dozen seats or more — but that’s not how things panned out. We spoke with State. Rep. Mark Batnick (R-Plainfield) who defeated Mica Freeman in 2018 by 590 votes out of more than 44-thousand cast — 1.32 percentage points.

Guests:

State Rep. Mark Batinick, R-Plainfield 

Prepared for web by Zainab Qureshi

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