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In 2010, Feingold lost his campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate to Republican nominee Ron Johnson. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On June 18, 2013, he was selected by Secretary of State John Kerry to replace R. Barrie Walkley as a special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Senator Russ Feingold lost re-election to a fourth term to Republican challenger Ron Johnson, a businessman and first-time candidate. [1] Johnson was the first Republican to win a Senate election in Wisconsin since 1986. Feingold also became ...
Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after campaign manager Rick Davis's lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies [17] Carlos Bonilla, economic policy adviser. Left in May 2008 after the campaign imposed new rules restricting the involvement of lobbyists.
The 2010 U.S. Senate campaign was Johnson's first run for elected office. According to The New York Times , Johnson said he "did kind of spring out of the Tea Party" and is glad to be associated with it, [ 10 ] although he did not join the Senate Tea Party Caucus following his election. [ 11 ]
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Feingold won by positioning himself as a quirky underdog who offered voters an alternative to what was seen by many as negative campaigning of opponents Jim Moody and Joe Checota. [8] On primary day, Feingold, whose support had shown in the single digits throughout much of the campaign, surged to victory with 70 percent of the vote. [7]
The Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll released Oct. 30 found that 4% of respondents said Ramaswamy was their first choice for president, tying him for fifth place in the poll with ...
The 2016 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Wisconsin, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.