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Third District Congressman Rep. Derrick Van Orden defeated Rebecca Cooke in a race that was called late Wednesday morning by multiple outlets. Van Orden, the Republican incumbent, had 51.35% of the vote with 211,696 to Cooke’s 48.65% with 200,556 votes in the district that includes Eau Claire and areas south of the city and extending east toward Oshkosh. Incumbents won seven of the eight U.S. House seats in Wisconsin as the Republicans hold a 6-2 advantage in the state. Republican Tony Wied topped Democrat Kristin Lyerly in the 8th District to fill an empty seat held by Republican Mike Gallagher until his April 24 resignation. Wied received 57.3% of the vote to Lyerly’s 42.7%. Republican incumbent Reps. Bryan Steil (1st District), Scott Fitzgerald (5th District), Glenn Grothman (6th District) and Tom Tiffany (7th District) won races along with Democratic incumbents Mark Pocan (2nd District) and Gwen Moore (4th District). Pocan represents a district including Madison and Moo...

Facebook even removed a reader's post that said, "Vote for Hovde!" labeling it spam. Leftist Democrat Tammy Baldwin has pulled ahead by just over 27,000 votes in a state, benefiting from a despicable Democratic trick on voters that she never repudiated, as well as aggressive censorship by Facebook against Republican businessman Eric Hovde, which ramped up as the election tightened. Facebook blatantly - and outrageously - interfered in the close Wisconsin race for U.S. Senate by repeatedly removing a Wisconsin Right Now news story that alerted voters about an "America First" candidate, Thomas Leader, who was recruited by Democrats in a deceptive attempt to defeat Hovde. As of 8 a.m. on 11/6, Leager had more than 28,000 votes, according to the Associated Press - more than Baldwin's margin of victory. She had declared victory. Hovde has not yet conceded. The Associated Press first exposed the fact that Leager was recruited by Democrats who were h...

Wisconsin voters approved a state constitution change requiring someone to be a citizen to vote in elections. The ballot measure had 75% approval with more than 95% of the statewide voted tallied. Currently, the Wisconsin constitution states that "Every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district" is a qualified voter; the ballot proposal would replace the phrase “every United States citizen” with “only a United States citizen.” The ballot measure comes as leaders across the state called for a process for the state to check its voter rolls for noncitizens and remove them, ensuring election integrity in the state. Currently, election commissions cannot check their rolls with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to ensure an estimated 90,000 individuals who are currently legally in the state, who can get a drivers license, do not register to vote. Several voting groups across the state spoke out against the ballot measure, ...

On Tuesday morning, before the polls closed, we wrote a story called "15 Reasons Trump Will Win Wisconsin." We talked to literally hundreds of Wisconsin voters this election season, all over the state. As Wisconsin's leading conservative news site and Wisconsinites ourselves, we have a close sense of the pulse of this state. And win, Trump did. Wisconsin ended up putting him over the electoral map victory threshold, sending an ecstatic U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and Wisconsin GOP Chair Brian Schimming to the podium at the Ingleside Hotel in Waukesha, where Johnson noted that the immigration chart he gave Trump saved his life, so it was fitting that Wisconsin put Trump over. Our columnist, Terrence Wall, also wrote a column about why Trump would win. Read it here. Johnson and Schimming deserve a lot of credit for Trump's Wisconsin victory. And the crowd in Waukesha loved them for it, as they mixed with regular folks in the crowd until well past midnight. Wiscons...

The seals were discovered broken on multiple tabulator machines this afternoon at Milwaukee’s Central Count, Milwaukee GOP Chairman Hilario Deleon told WRN. “The seals are broken,” Deleon said. “It’s a huge red flag. It should not have happened.” [caption id="attachment_310479" align="alignleft" width="300"] Hilario Deleon[/caption] He said Paulina Gutierrez, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director resealed the machines with Deleon watching as an election observer. “She looked like she was going to have a nervous breakdown,” Deleon said of Gutierrez, when she learned of the seal issue. “She was very transparent. She said, ‘We have to fix this right away.’” Jefferson Davis, a #GOP election observer at #Milwaukee Central Count, told #Wisconsin Right Now that he personally observed the seals. He said that 13 machines were affected. Davis said he was told Milwaukee won’t have its absentee ballots counted now until 2 or 3 a.m. H...

Subject: Why Vote for Trump? I’ve got a service provider/ consultant friend of mine that we use for our larger buildings who’s a liberal. (Choke, cough, gag. Sorry, I had to clear my throat.) I’ve tried to explain to him that his livelihood depends on Harris not getting elected; not that I would stop hiring him, because unlike the left, I don’t believe in trying to cancel people or businesses, but rather because he works for developers. Of course, he also works for governments too, and his firm has benefited greatly from the massive government spending at all levels of government, from the federal government down to the state to local to schools. So, on the other hand, I can see where he personally benefits from the spending. But if Harries gets elected, he will lose a lot of business from developers, because like me, many developers plan on curtailing development of new housing (MF or SF) because she has promised to raise taxes and even implement a wealth tax. A wealth tax i...

We were both raised in Wisconsin, one of us in northwestern Wisconsin and the other in the southeast. We went to high school and college here, and we live here, in different counties. We've talked to literally hundreds of Wisconsin voters this election season, all over the state. And we think Donald Trump will win Wisconsin. But it's always a tough fight in Wisconsin, where many elections are decided by 10-30,000 votes. A lot has changed in Wisconsin since 2020, from improvements in the Republican ground game to the growth of conservative media and a strong push for early voting. Here's why we think Trump will win the state: 1. The Issues Favor Trump The top reasons Trump will win here are the same reasons we think he'll win the presidency: The economy and the border. At the end of the day, Kamala Harris has not been able to deliver a coherent message on those topics nor explain how she would be different from Joe Biden. Instead, in what may have been the key...