First Ever: Republican County Executive Elected in Kenosha County
Wisconsin’s Republican Party said Republicans flipped the county board in Kenosha as well.
It’s being seen as one of the biggest upsets in Wisconsin and possibly a bellwether for the rest of the state.
Voters in Kenosha County on Tuesday elected their first-ever Republican County chairman in the first local election since the 2020 riots that burned parts of the city of Kenosha to the ground.
Samantha Kerkman beat Clerk of Courts Rebecca Matoska-Mentink by nearly 800 votes.
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“Liberals and Tony Evers let Kenosha burn,” Republican candidate for governor Rebecca Kleefisch said on Twitter Tuesday night. “Now voters are taking back control and putting the county in a capable set of hands.”
Wisconsin’s Republican Party said Republicans flipped the county board in Kenosha as well.
“Like all Wisconsinites, residents of Kenosha are fed up with the failed polic...