决策桌总部（DDHQ）预测，当选众议员拉肖恩·福特（民主党-伊利诺伊州）将接替长期众议员丹尼·戴维斯（民主党-伊利诺伊州），代表伊利诺伊州第7国会选区。
Rep.-elect La Shawn Ford (D-Ill.) is set to succeed longtime Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) in representing Illinois's 7th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) has projected.
福特目前是伊利诺伊州第8选区的州众议员，自2007年1月起一直在伊利诺伊州议会任职。
Ford is currently an Illinois state representative for the state's 8th District and has served in the Illinois state House since Jan. 2007.
他曾就读于芝加哥洛约拉大学，在那里为学校篮球队效力，后来在芝加哥公立学校系统任教，并创办了自己的房地产公司。
He went to Loyola University Chicago, where he played for the school’s basketball team, later taught in the Chicago Public Schools system and started his own real estate business.
今年伊利诺伊州第7国会选区的民主党初选中，福特与加密货币领先的超级政治行动委员会“公平摇摆”展开竞争。尽管该委员会花费了250万美元反对他，他仍赢得了选举。2025年7月，戴维斯宣布，他将在任期届满时退出国会。他在国会任职三十年，在此期间代表芝加哥的部分地区。
In the Democratic primary for Illinois’s 7th Congressional District this year, Ford battled it out against the cryptocurrency’s leading super PAC, Fairshake. He won his race despite the $2.5 million the PAC spent against him. In July 2025, Davis announced that he would retire from Congress when his term is up. He served in Congress for three decades, representing parts of Chicago during that time.
戴维斯于1996年首次当选，一直是筹款委员会的资深成员，并在国会黑人核心小组中担任领导职务。他还支持福特争夺他的席位。福特居住在芝加哥的奥斯汀社区，有一个名叫蒂娅的女儿。
Davis was first elected in 1996, and has been a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee and played a leadership role in the Congressional Black Caucus. He has also backed Ford in his bid for his seat. Ford lives in the Chicago neighborhood of Austin and has a daughter named Tia.