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Byline: Ben Jacobs After (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/how-trump-won-by-the-numbers.html) Donald Trump's surprising win in 2016, reporters frantically rushed to diners in the Rust Belt to find the white working-class voters who backed him after [...]

This story is part of the Prospects on-the-ground Election 2024 coverage. You can find all the other stories (https://prospect.org/topics/election-2024/) here. EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN What are we gonna do this week? [...]

Republican victories in the Badger State run through the historically redWOW counties' just outside Milwaukee, yet this area is becoming less and less red. To win Wisconsin, Republicans for decades [...]

Stephen Colbert will host a live “Veep” cast reunion and table read on Sunday, Sept. 29. Cast members Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky and more will be joined by [...]

When liberal Milwaukee judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April of last year, Democrats had zero chance of winning a majority in either the state [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd407e33e-dca4-4102-8706-45c9aa876eec_1024x683.jpeg) Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks to canvassers at the local party headquarters in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Photo by Dominic Gwinn Over the weekend Second Gentleman [...]

Benjamin Wallace-Wells Tribally, Republicans tend toward boisterousness, just as Democrats tend toward self-doubt. Even so, last week’s Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, explored the boundary of how optimistic a political [...]

Wisconsin has long been a competitive state in presidential politics. The state for years has produced razor-thin results, and it is poised to do so again in November. Both Vice [...]

Byline: Nia Prater As Republicans attempt to course-correct following the sudden shift in Democratic candidates, some have almost immediately leaned into racist critiques of Vice-President (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-biographer-dan-morain-interview.html) Kamala Harris. On Monday, [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee826be8-4e3c-4987-8112-b0cb619dc562_1024x653.jpeg) Yesterday Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after the rest of the Democratic Party realized it needed a woman to do the heavy lifting of [...]

Byline: Nia Prater Vice-President (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-obama-coalition.html) Kamala Harris kicked off her presidential campaign on Tuesday, holding her first official rally in front of an enthusiastic crowd in the key battleground state [...]

Campaign-committee chairs and other operatives set high expectations for November. MILWAUKEE'If the primary theme of the Republican National Convention was unity, the party's offensive opportunities came in a close second. [...]

Republicans vying for the upper chamber made notable appearances in Milwaukee, while House candidates were largely absent. Twelve GOP Senate candidates, including some in the most competitive seats this November, [...]

Former President Donald Trump has stamped out the old Republican Party. His power is on full display during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In selecting Sen. JD Vance as [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51910ca0-afa9-4657-bdbb-4ca351d9ece4_1200x771.png) You know who thinks Milwaukee is pretty cool? Alice Cooper. Donald Trump stuck his giant clown foot deep into his blab hole on Thursday when he reportedly referred to [...]

Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a'horrible city.' The former president is set to be formally crowned the GOP's presidential nominee there in July. Republicans offered a variety of explanations for [...]

Biden is currently trailing Trump in several critical battleground states ahead of November. But of all the swing states, Wisconsin has largely been the most receptive to Biden's message. Biden [...]

On Tuesday, Wisconsin became the fifth state to file criminal charges stemming from the plot by Republicans to overturn the 2020 election by submitting forged electoral certificates falsely claiming that [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com There may have been a few empty seats, but there was certainly no lack of heat as the 2024 Republican Party of Wisconsin State Convention kicked [...]

Considering the recent pattern of American politics, the Republicans' choice to hold their convention this July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is no surprise. Barack Obama easily won the state twice, but [...]