Proponents of Final-Four or Five Voting, which puts candidates from all parties on one "jungle primary" ballot and enacts ...

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The Democratic candidate increased his vote total by a greater amount than Trump in 2020, but the script flipped this year.

Democrats and Republicans raised a record amount — more than $12 million — in trying to win the 3rd Congressional District in western Wisconsin this year. The result moved the needle to the left, but ...

In 2024, eight people donated $1 million or more to a political party in Wisconsin. And some of them gave much more. Before 2015, the most a person could give in annual political donations in ...

The vice president got nearly 40,000 more votes in the state in 2024 than Joe Biden won here in 2020. The problem? Donald Trump improved on his 2020 total in Wisconsin by nearly 90,000 votes.

Most of the congressional districts in the state are not competitive, leading to lopsided victories for many U.S. House incumbents here. Wisconsin is one of the most closely contested states in the ...

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Pocan was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012 after serving 14 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, which oversees government spending, ...

Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...