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Cicely Davis
Cicely Davis (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Davis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Cicely Davis was born in Rochester, New York.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Minnesota's 5th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Minnesota District 5
Incumbent Ilhan Omar defeated Cicely Davis in the general election for U.S. House Minnesota District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ilhan Omar (D) | 74.3 | 214,224 |
 | Cicely Davis (R)  | 24.5 | 70,702 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 3,280 | ||
| Total votes: 288,206 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mickey Moore (Legal Marijuana Now Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 5
Incumbent Ilhan Omar defeated Don Samuels, Nate Schluter, A.J. Kern, and Albert T. Ross in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 5 on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ilhan Omar | 50.3 | 57,683 |
 | Don Samuels | 48.2 | 55,217 | |
 | Nate Schluter | 0.6 | 671 | |
 | A.J. Kern | 0.5 | 519 | |
 | Albert T. Ross | 0.4 | 477 | |
| Total votes: 114,567 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Khanh Tran (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 5
Cicely Davis defeated Royce White and Guy Gaskin in the Republican primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 5 on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cicely Davis | 48.0 | 4,765 |
 | Royce White | 37.2 | 3,689 | |
| Guy Gaskin | 14.9 | 1,476 | ||
| Total votes: 9,930 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cicely Davis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Davis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm focused on the issues that matter: Public safety, combating inflation, educational freedom, economic revitalization, individual liberty and responsibility, and a strong national defense that includes secure borders.
As State Director of BLEXIT MN – the organization founded by Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum – I focused on the black community and advocated for school choice and championing entrepreneurship and free enterprise as a means for minority communities to escape government dependency and poverty.
I served as the chair for Senate District 59 in downtown Minneapolis, where I currently live with my husband. I also became involved on a grassroots level and volunteered in 2020 to support the previous Republican candidate running against Ilhan Omar.
I can force a conversation over the issues that matter to voters in this district. I’ll be able to attract new voters, sway independent voters, and build new coalitions, while expanding the base of the Republican Party.
I’m also best positioned to support Republicans statewide as their pathway to victory runs through the 5th congressional district. Simply put, I’m the best best choice to defeat Ilhan Omar.- Public Safety - We can’t allow our cities to be overrun by violent criminals. I will encourage support and funding for law enforcement, work towards common-sense solutions to crime, and ensure that our inner cities are receiving the support they need to be safe and secure. The only way to economically revitalize downtown and the district is to make it a safe place to live, work, and visit.
- Combating Inflation - When the money in your wallet is worth less today than it was yesterday, it can have terribly destructive psychological consequences. The Biden administration and its supporters have tried to duck responsibility for the financially ruinous consequences of their own policies but they caused this inflation. Ilhan Omar, for her part, doesn’t even try to hide it. She wants to cancel rent payments and make college free for all. We can’t spend money we don’t have. We need smaller government, less spending, and lower taxes. We need to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to compete and succeed, rather than punishing success and stifling innovation in pursuit of a socialist vision of equity.
- Educational Freedom - No investment is more important than our children. I’m for school choice, increasing graduation rates, and eliminating Critical Race Theory from classrooms. We can’t continue to breed new generations of kids that are taught to hate America, which begins early in too many classrooms. Parents should have a say on what their children are taught. Teachers and students belong together in the classroom, not over Zoom conference calls. Lastly, we need to get rid of the ineffective mask mandate for our young children because it runs contrary to proven science and stunts their growth. When it comes to our youngest generation, the only special interest group that matters are the children and their parents.
National Security - I’m for strengthening alliances while putting American interests first. We must reward friends and punish foes, not the other way around. We should stand with our allies for freedom.
Secure Borders - Legal immigration is a privilege and there is a process to gain citizenship. The current Biden-made border crisis was avoidable and it poses a national security risk to the country.
Clarence Thomas: He grew up poor before in the segregated south and English was not even his first language growing up. He was very rebellious and was almost a Marxist at times during college, before coming around to his senses and becoming arguably the most principled conservative constitutionalist in the history of the United States Supreme Court. It’s a pretty incredible story.
House Ways and Means Committee
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Campaign website
Davis' campaign website stated the following:
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Public safety/Crime We cannot allow violence to become common place. I will work to re-build our police force, provide common sense solutions to crime, support first responders, and commit to making CD-5 and Minneapolis a safe place to live, work, and visit Inflation/cost of living: With inflation at a 40-year high, the dollar is worth less, buys little, and is stretched way too thin. We cannot continue to spend money we don’t have. We need to tax people less and return their money. We need to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to succeed for a vital and prosperous district
With inflation at a 40-year high, the dollar is worth less, buys little, and is stretched way too thin. We cannot continue to spend money we don’t have. We need to tax people less and return their money. We need to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to succeed for a vital and prosperous district
No investment is more important than our children. I will invest in school choice, increased graduation and literacy rates, and curricular transparency. Our children need quality education to prepare them to compete and build a promising future.
The inadequate supply of affordable housing is a complex problem. We need housing near job supply for society to work. I will address the issues surrounding housing such as mental and behavioral health, substance abuse, and lack of resources to maintain dignity of life.[2] |
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| —Cicely Davis' campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 11, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cicely Davis For Congress, “Issues,” accessed October 5, 2022
