Report: Rep. Tammy Duckworth to run for Illinois Senate

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. (Seth Perlman, AP)

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., reportedly will announce Monday that she will run for a U.S. Senate chair now hold by Republican Mark Kirk.

The Chicago Sun-Timesreports

Duckworth, who recently gave birth to a daughter

Duckworth was inaugurated to Congress in 2012 after portion as an partner secretary in a Veterans’ Affairs department. In 2004, Duckworth deployed to Iraq as a helicopter commander for a Illinois Army National Guard. A rocket-propelled grenade strike a Blackhawk helicopter she was piloting. Both of her legs had to be amputated after a attack, that also caused her to remove prejudiced use of her right arm.

Kirk, whose Senate chair was formerly hold by President Obama, is a tip Democratic aim in a 2016 elections. The GOP has a 54-46 infancy in a Senate, that means Democrats need a net benefit of 5 seats to recover control.

Alyssa McCurley, a Kirk spokeswoman, told The Hill

“Senator Mark Kirk is an eccentric voice for Illinois and is unapproachable of his bipartisan record of feat in a United States Senate,” McCurley pronounced in January

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