At the moment, the presidential ground game in Wisconsin looks like a battle of the 70-something New York billionaires. President Trump and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have aggressively built a Wisconsin campaign presence on the ground, while Bloomberg has the airwaves virtually to himself.  Besides Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the only one of Trump’s Democratic challengers to open a Wisconsin office and deploy paid staff here as of mid-February.

A panel featuring a pair of partisan operatives and pollster Charles Franklin highlighted the potential for a surge in turnout in the April presidential primary tipping the balance of the Supreme Court race down ballot. But speaking at a WisPolitics.com

The state Assembly last night approved a pared-back bill to extend closing time for bars by two hours until 4 a.m. during the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this July. The bill’s author Rep. Rob Swearingen, R-Rhinelander, said the changes

New polling from Quinnipiac University released today had President Trump with leads of between 7 and 11 points on each of the top Dems vying for their party’s nomination to face him this fall. The Quinnipiac poll looked at Wisconsin,

Senate Democrats sought unsuccessfully to get the Senate to sign off on extending bar hours to 4 a.m. during the party’s national convention in Milwaukee this summer. An Assembly committee signed off on the proposal last week. But Senate Majority

The state Republican Party says its newly opened field office on the north side of Milwaukee was vandalized Tuesday night. A video released on the party’s Twitter account shows silver and black paint on the building’s windows covering signs for

Wisconsin is one of 28 states where presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is running three new TV ads that declare he’s the only Dem in the race who can beat President Trump. A state-based spokesman said the spots are running in

Bloomberg has spent several hundred million dollars nationwide in a presidential bid political scientists call unprecedented. Now some Democrats across the country accuse Bloomberg of luring away campaign staffers with higher-paying jobs, much above the average rate.

Peggy Williams-Smith, president and CEO of Visit Milwaukee, is urging business leaders to prepare for constant commotion during the upcoming Democratic National Convention. “There’s going to be problems getting around downtown,” she said. “There are, I mean let’s face it.

The UW-Madison Elections Research Center announced it will poll in the Midwestern battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The effort includes polling all three states in February immediately after this week’s New Hampshire primary, again before the national conventions

Organizers for the Democratic National Convention have announced JCP Construction of Milwaukee will be the general contractor for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.  The Democratic National Convention Committee also said yesterday that Milwaukee-based Hargrove will handle event management.  JCP Construction

The remaining Dem presidential candidates collectively outraised President Trump in Wisconsin for the third quarter in a row, according to a WisPolitics.com analysis of FEC numbers. But the president still drew in significantly more when compared to any other single

A bill that would allow southeastern Wisconsin municipalities to OK extending closing hours for bars and brewers during the 2020 Dem National Convention in Milwaukee began circulating for co-sponsorships last week. The bill proposes a host of other changes to

The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors is doubling its voter registration campaign funding in response to a state lawsuit to purge 200,000 voters from the rolls. “We must do everything we can to protect the right to vote, especially in

The fired president of the committee hosting the Dem National Convention in Milwaukee wasn’t given any reason for her termination and is exploring her options after her reputation was “tarnished” amid allegations of a hostile work environment, her attorney says.

Tim Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, says the organization remains confident in the DNC Host Committee. MMAC and its Community Support Foundation are involved in fundraising for the DNC. Sheehy says they haven’t been engaged in