* Remington Research Group poll taken in the 15th Congressional District December 10-11 for Republican congressional candidate Mary Miller, (no relation) who’s running in a crowded primary to replace retiring GOP US Rep. John Shimkus. The poll of 810 likely 2020 GOP primary voters has a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percent. These are all interactive voice response calls…

Q1: What is your opinion of Donald Trump?

Favorable: 87%
Unfavorable: 8%
No opinion: 5%

Q2: What is your opinion of J.B. Pritzker?

Favorable: 6%
Unfavorable: 76%
No opinion: 18%

Q3: What is your opinion of John Shimkus?

Favorable: 52%
Unfavorable: 20%
No opinion: 28%

Q7: Possible candidates in the 2020 Republican Primary Election for United States Congress are Mary Miller, Darren Duncan, Kerry Wolff, Charles Ellington, Kent Gray, and Kimberly Wade. If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?

Mary Miller: 16%
Darren Duncan: 7%
Kerry Wolff: 7%
Charles Ellington: 3%
Kent Gray: 3%
Kimberly Wade: 1%
Undecided: 63%

* Meanwhile, the leadership PAC for the House Freedom Caucus has endorsed Miller, which should be a big help in that primary. The House Freedom Fund has also endorsed Jeanne Ives.

Miller is the spouse of Rep. Chris Miller (R-Oakland), a member of the Eastern Bloc. I met her once and she has some chops. We’ll see what she can do at this level, though.

* Darren Duncan may also be one to watch…

Conservative Vermilion County Treasurer Darren Duncan, a seventh-generation farmer from Rossville and advocate for reduced spending and common-sense government is formally launching his campaign for the GOP nomination for the 15th Congressional District in the March 2020 primary.

Duncan, 48, made his formal announcement in a campaign video released this morning and in a speech to Vermilion County Republicans in Danville. […]

Duncan said he wants to help President Trump pass a conservative agenda through Congress that benefits rural areas and small communities throughout Illinois.

“I fully support President Trump’s USMCA trade deal with Canada and Mexico that will boost access to American farm and manufactured goods to our neighboring countries,” said Duncan, “and I stand with President Trump in his efforts to stop bad actors on the world stage taking advantage of our current trade system.”

Kerry Wolff is vice president of the Altamont School Board and has been in the solar power industry for the past few years.

Kent Gray is a goner.

* Kimberly Wade could be an interesting candidate if she survives the challenge to her petitions by Eastern Bloc Rep. Brad Halbrook. She filed on the last possible day.

Wade founded the Kids Shouldn’t Have Cancer Foundation and her work has often been featured by US Rep. Rodney Davis.