Yep. Love Tammy Duckworth. What a lot of people have forgotten, is she flipped that Senate seat from none other than conservative asshole Henry Hyde.
We will be erasing his Hyde amendment soon, along with a lot of other conservative assholes.
Okay, not exactly. Henry Hyde represented the SIXTH district (In the House, not the Senate) . After he retired in 2006, Duckworth ran for his seat (even though she didn't live in the district) against a guy named Peter Roskam. Roskam was a decent enough guy, a moderate Republican. You know, not a crazy person. She lost. (Roskam would eventually get beaten in 2018's anti-Trump wave.)
In 2010, the district she did live in lost it's Democratic rep in the Teabagger Wave, to a mutant named Joe Walsh. Finely representing the Party of Family Values, Walsh stiffed his family on years of Child support. She ran against him in 2012 and won. Walsh went on to be a noxious Hate Radio host until he realized Trump was destroying the GOP and ran against him. (This is kind of like Igor turning on Frankenstein, but never mind.)
Finally, in 2016, she ran for Illinois Senate seat against Mark Kirk. Again, Mark wasn't that bad of a guy for a Republican, as in he wasn't a crazy person. She won this one, particularly after Mark made a stupid comment about how there were no Thai's in George Washington's army. (Duckworth's father was white and she can trace her ancestry back to Colonial days.)
I'm starting to think that Biden should pick Duckworth, just for ability to get Republicans to say stupid things.