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The ad accused her of reducing healthcare funding to pay for electric cars.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) holds a double-digit lead over likely GOP challenger Eric Hovde in a new poll of the battleground state Senate race. The survey, released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, shows Baldwin bringing in 54 percent support among surveyed Wisconsin voters to Hovde’s 42 percent. While each candidate takes nearly all of their own…

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Tuesday that he does not plan to vote for former President Trump in November, indicating that he would write in another candidate instead. “Character is too important to me,” Ryan, who left Congress in 2019, told Yahoo Finance at the Milken Global Institute Conference. “And it’s a job that…

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele sharply criticized former President Trump’s inability to admit he lost the last presidential election and said he’s afraid of losing the upcoming one in November because it will hit the most important thing to him, his ego. “Donald Trump is afraid of losing, because it strikes at…

Former President Trump will hold campaign events next week in Wisconsin and Michigan, marking the first time he will use a day off from his hush money trial in New York City to visit a battleground state. Trump will head to Waukesha next Wednesday, where his campaign said he will deliver remarks “to contrast the…

An abortion-rights group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election. Reproductive Freedom for All Freedom Fund put out an ad Monday in Michigan and Wisconsin — two battleground states — looking to portray the independent candidate as…

The Wisconsin governor has signed a bill requiring K-12 schools to teach Asian American history, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The bill, which Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed Thursday, also requires schools to teach Hmong American history, per the release. In the release, Evers said that “[t]he Hmong and Asian American…

Nearly 50,000 Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin voted for an “uninstructed” delegation on Tuesday as a protest against President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. The “uninstructed” margin — 48,000 votes, or about 8 percent — was more than 10 times larger than it was in 2020 and surpassed the general election margin…

Biden’s handling of Gaza continues to anger significant numbers of voters.

Former President Trump backed Republican Eric Hovde on Tuesday in the Wisconsin Senate competition to oust Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). “I met Eric, and I’ve studied Eric and I — because we have to get it right and running against some very fine people, really. But I’ve looked it out, and they’re going to have other…