据Decision Desk HQ预测，埃文斯顿市长丹尼尔·比斯（民主党）将轻松击败共和党对手约翰·埃莱森，接替退休众议员简·沙科夫斯基（民主党-伊利诺伊州）留下的众议院席位。
Evanston, Ill., Mayor Daniel Biss (D) is projected to easily defeat his Republican opponent John Elleson for the House seat left open by retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), according to Decision Desk HQ.
比斯是一名数学家和前政策顾问，将代表伊利诺伊州第9选区，该选区涵盖普莱里州东北部的库克县、莱克县和麦克亨利县的部分地区。该席位由沙科夫斯基留空，她于2025年宣布退出国会，并支持比斯参选。
Biss — a mathematician and former policy consultant — will serve Illinois’s 9th District, which represents parts of Cook, Lake and McHenry counties in the northeastern part of the Prairie State. The seat was left open by Schakowsky, who announced her retirement from Congress in 2025. She endorsed Biss in his bid.
根据其竞选网站，他竞选纲领包括加强劳工保护、恢复经济竞争以及追究企业责任。
He campaigned on strengthening worker protections, restoring competition to the economy and corporate accountability, according to his campaign website.
在启动众议院竞选之前，比斯曾在伊利诺伊州众议院和州参议院任职，期间投票通过了保护堕胎权并加强技术隐私要求的法案。
Before launching his House campaign, Biss served in both the Illinois House and Senate, where he voted to pass protections for abortion rights and strengthen technology privacy requirements.
比斯的竞选得到了民主党参议员塔米·达克沃思（伊利诺伊州）和伊丽莎白·沃伦（马萨诸塞州）的支持。
Biss’s bid was backed by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).
在初选期间，他曾受到“芝加哥女性选举”组织的显著攻击，该组织与美国以色列公共事务委员会结盟，根据联邦选举委员会的备案文件，该组织在其竞选中花费了140万美元。
During the primaries, he was notably attacked by Elect Chicago Women — a group aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — which spent $1.4 million against his campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
他在3月份初选获胜前曾陷入争议，当时他承认在2004年在芝加哥大学任教期间与一名前学生有过“一小撮约会”。比斯的竞选团队在向《每日西北人报》发表的声明中确认了这段关系，指出当时20岁的学生正在修读比斯讲授的课程，比斯当时26岁，担任博士后讲师。
He faced controversy before his March primary victory when he admitted to going on a “handful of dates” with a former student while teaching at the University of Chicago in 2004. Biss’s campaign confirmed the relationship in a statement to The Daily Northwestern, noting the 20-year-old student had been enrolled in a course that Biss, who was 26 at the time, taught as a postdoctoral instructor.
比斯的竞选团队补充说，比斯知道这“不可取”，并在当时“结束”了这段关系。
Biss’s campaign added that Biss knew it was “ill-advised” and “ended” it at the time.