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Wisconsin itself had voted Democratic in every election from 1988 on, having been one of 10 states that supported Michael Dukakis in 1988. Republicans had scored notable statewide victories over the Obama presidency , with Scott Walker having won election and re-election as Governor and having fought off a recall attempt in 2012 , and with Ron ...
However, Republicans lost elections for all statewide executive offices, with the exception of John Leiber who was elected State Treasurer by a slim 38,604 votes. Currently the Republican Party of Wisconsin controls one of two U.S. Senate seats and six of eight U.S. House seats, as well as majorities in both houses of the state legislature.
In 1924, Robert M. La Follette became the only third-party presidential candidate to win in Wisconsin, taking 53.96% of the popular vote. Since 1988 , Wisconsin has leaned towards the Democratic Party in presidential elections, although Republican Donald Trump won the state by a margin of 0.77 percentage points.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s four liberal justices voted in March to accept the case, agreeing specifically only to resolve whether the 22-month-old ruling was incorrectly decided, but not any ...
The 6th district is based in east-central Wisconsin, encompassing part of the Fox River Valley, and takes in Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and Sheboygan. The incumbent was Republican Glenn Grothman , who was reelected with 59.2% of the vote in 2020.
Wisconsin Republicans made a last-ditch effort Tuesday to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court put in place new legislative district boundaries for the November election. The ...
Democrats see an opportunity break the Republicans' yearslong hold on state politics in the battleground state of Wisconsin heading into the 2024 election.
In the Wisconsin Democratic presidential preference primary, Vice President Joe Biden won an overwhelming victory. This was the last primary of the 2020 Democratic nominating contest before Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 campaign. In the Wisconsin Republican presidential preference primary, incumbent president Donald Trump was