Island had experienced a population shift of only 7,200, a new congressional map would put 125,000 Rhode Islanders into new districts, which would help Democrats—and notably Cicilline. Fellow House Democrat Jim Langevin accused Cicilline of trying to use the redistricting to aid with his reelection campaign. Potential Republican contenders suggested that it was an attempt to save Cicilline after his approval numbers had dropped. Cicilline rebuffed the allegations, and asserted that he did not attempt to influence the redistricting. 2014 In 2014, Cicilline defeated his Democratic primary opponent, Matthew Fecteau, with 62.98% of the vote. In the general election, he was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican nominee Cormick Lynch with 59% of the vote. 2016 Cicilline was reelected to a fourth term, defeating Republican nominee H. Russell Taub with 64% of the vote. 2018 Cicilline ran in the primary election against Christopher Young. During the campaign, both Young and Cicilline's Republican opponent, Patrick Donovan, criticized Cicilline's behavior at the hearing of Peter Strzok. Young said that Cicilline was "screaming like a lunatic". Donovan said, "What Mr. Cicilline did in the hearing was childish. To be yelling like that is not part of what he’s supposed to be doing representing our interests down in Washington." Cicilline defeated Young in the primary election with 78% of the vote. In September, Cicilline stated that if Democrats became the majority party in the House, he would run for assistant Democratic leader. For his work on the Assault Weapons Ban he had introduced to the House, The Newtown Action Alliance endorsed Cicilline in the 2018 election. Cicilline won the general election, defeating Republican nominee Patrick Donovan with 66.6% of the vote. 2020 Cicilline ran unopposed in the 2020 Democratic primary election. In the general election, he received 70.8% of the vote, defeating the two independent candidates, Frederick Wysocki and Jeffery Edward Lemire, who earned 15.8% and 12.6%, respectively. Tenure Upon being sworn in, Cicilline became the fourth openly gay member of Congress. Cicilline has voted with his party 96% of the time. He has been called a "populist-leaning liberal". Since 2016, he has served as a co-chair of the Policy and Communications Committee. He has been described as a "rising star" in the Democratic Party. The Democratic Caucus elected Cicilline chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee after he dropped out of the race to become assistant Democratic leader. As chair of