Media outlets call Wisconsin for Trump
Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024
Multiple media outlets have projected Donald Trump will win Wisconsin, putting the Badger State back in his column four years after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden.
Multiple media outlets have projected Donald Trump will win Wisconsin, putting the Badger State back in his column four years after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden.
Republicans maintained control of the Assembly today despite new legislative lines that gave Dems more opportunities to flip the chamber than previous maps. As of early this morning, Republicans had secured the 50 seats they needed to maintain the majority, according to a WisPolitics check of unofficial returns.
Dems picked up three seats in the state Senate on Tuesday — including knocking off GOP state Sens. Joan Ballweg and Duey Stroebel — as they kept the door open to taking a run at flipping control of the chamber in 2026. They also led in early returns in a fourth seat that would mark a clean sweep of the contested races on Tuesday’s ballot.
Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden declared victory in his reelection bid in western Wisconsin’s 3rd CD tonight in one of the most closely watched races in the Badger State.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil won reelection tonight to the 1st CD as De Pere businessman Tony Wied secured the open 8th CD for Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who joined Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming to inspect Milwaukee central count operation, said Milwaukee “obviously wasn’t” ready for Election Day, calling it “sloppy.”
Milwaukee election officials are starting over with counting some 31,000 absentee ballots initially fed through tabulators that hadn’t properly been locked, likely adding significant time to the final tally.
City of Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez cautioned it would be a late night in Milwaukee due to the number of absentee ballots that must be processed.
Walz and Vance held competing rallies yesterday in La Crosse – a big hub in the crucial 3rd Congressional District – on the eve of the election. The rallies came just days after their running mates, Harris and Donald Trump, rallied voters at dueling events in Milwaukee on Friday. Walz also had visits in Stevens Point and Milwaukee. Yesterday marked Walz and Vance’s ninth Wisconsin visits.
Brian Schimming, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, says the remaining final hours of get-out-the-vote efforts will be “very intense” ahead of Election Day.
Donald Trump told his supporters at a Milwaukee rally Kamala Harris “hates you” as he charged she can’t answer a question, is a “dummy,” “cracks under pressure” and is a “weak person.” Five miles away at her own rally, Harris warned her backers that Trump is “not done” after his picks for the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and would seek to impose a national abortion ban, restrict access to birth control and put IVF treatments at risk.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss candidates’ closing arguments head of Tuesday’s election, highlights from the Marquette University Law School Poll, early voting data, legislative races to watch and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Wisconsin’s congressional races and consider the impact of new district boundaries on Wisconsin’s legislative races. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The latest hauls pushed the Dem take from Jan. 1 to Oct. 21 to $29.4 million, compared to the $7.4 million the state GOP raised.
Donald Trump at a rally in Green Bay said his supporters are “far higher quality” than Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and that the president and VP “hate the American people.” Meanwhile, Harris at a rally in Madison said Trump is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
The Marquette University Law School Poll’s final look at the November election found nip-and-tuck races for president and the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, with voters having an increasingly negative view on the leading candidates in both contests.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Madison said Dems’ desire to keep him on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan was “election interference” and an attempt to “trick people voting for me instead of voting for Donald Trump.”
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a Wausau rally said people “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing” after a speaker at a Trump-Vance campaign rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Meanwhile, Dem vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for “trash talking” the U.S.
Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’s prepared to vote to eliminate the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade but would rather work to reform it instead. Meanwhile, Baldwin’s GOP challenger, Eric Hovde, says a Trump victory in Wisconsin would boost his chances in the razor-thin race.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the start of early voting, presidential candidate visits, lawsuits targeting Wisconsin elections and more.
Multiple media outlets have projected Donald Trump will win Wisconsin, putting the Badger State back in his column four years after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden.
Republicans maintained control of the Assembly today despite new legislative lines that gave Dems more opportunities to flip the chamber than previous maps. As of early this morning, Republicans had secured the 50 seats they needed to maintain the majority, according to a WisPolitics check of unofficial returns.
Dems picked up three seats in the state Senate on Tuesday — including knocking off GOP state Sens. Joan Ballweg and Duey Stroebel — as they kept the door open to taking a run at flipping control of the chamber in 2026. They also led in early returns in a fourth seat that would mark a clean sweep of the contested races on Tuesday’s ballot.
Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden declared victory in his reelection bid in western Wisconsin’s 3rd CD tonight in one of the most closely watched races in the Badger State.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil won reelection tonight to the 1st CD as De Pere businessman Tony Wied secured the open 8th CD for Republicans.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who joined Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming to inspect Milwaukee central count operation, said Milwaukee “obviously wasn’t” ready for Election Day, calling it “sloppy.”
Milwaukee election officials are starting over with counting some 31,000 absentee ballots initially fed through tabulators that hadn’t properly been locked, likely adding significant time to the final tally.
City of Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez cautioned it would be a late night in Milwaukee due to the number of absentee ballots that must be processed.
Walz and Vance held competing rallies yesterday in La Crosse – a big hub in the crucial 3rd Congressional District – on the eve of the election. The rallies came just days after their running mates, Harris and Donald Trump, rallied voters at dueling events in Milwaukee on Friday. Walz also had visits in Stevens Point and Milwaukee. Yesterday marked Walz and Vance’s ninth Wisconsin visits.
Brian Schimming, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, says the remaining final hours of get-out-the-vote efforts will be “very intense” ahead of Election Day.
Donald Trump told his supporters at a Milwaukee rally Kamala Harris “hates you” as he charged she can’t answer a question, is a “dummy,” “cracks under pressure” and is a “weak person.” Five miles away at her own rally, Harris warned her backers that Trump is “not done” after his picks for the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and would seek to impose a national abortion ban, restrict access to birth control and put IVF treatments at risk.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss candidates’ closing arguments head of Tuesday’s election, highlights from the Marquette University Law School Poll, early voting data, legislative races to watch and more.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Wisconsin’s congressional races and consider the impact of new district boundaries on Wisconsin’s legislative races. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The latest hauls pushed the Dem take from Jan. 1 to Oct. 21 to $29.4 million, compared to the $7.4 million the state GOP raised.
Donald Trump at a rally in Green Bay said his supporters are “far higher quality” than Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and that the president and VP “hate the American people.” Meanwhile, Harris at a rally in Madison said Trump is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
The Marquette University Law School Poll’s final look at the November election found nip-and-tuck races for president and the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, with voters having an increasingly negative view on the leading candidates in both contests.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Madison said Dems’ desire to keep him on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan was “election interference” and an attempt to “trick people voting for me instead of voting for Donald Trump.”
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a Wausau rally said people “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing” after a speaker at a Trump-Vance campaign rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Meanwhile, Dem vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for “trash talking” the U.S.
Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she’s prepared to vote to eliminate the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade but would rather work to reform it instead. Meanwhile, Baldwin’s GOP challenger, Eric Hovde, says a Trump victory in Wisconsin would boost his chances in the razor-thin race.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the start of early voting, presidential candidate visits, lawsuits targeting Wisconsin elections and more.