VEROQUA — Ten years ago, Wisconsin was the heartbeat of the conservative populist movement that was reshaping the Republican Party in ways not broadly understood not just by the Democrats but also the national media and establishment Republicans.
At the end of August 2014, most of the national media reported that the then-upstart Republican Gov. Scott Walker was well on his way to finally losing the Wisconsin governor's mansion. After all, no one expected him to win in the first place in 2009, certainly no expected him to win that spectacle of a recall election shortly after, so clearly his reelection was doomed.
And like clockwork, year after year Republican voters— enhanced by culturally conservative Democrats and independent voters—showed the door to a Democrat Party that had become radicalized by the Left. This was no more evident than in 2019 when, against all odds, conservative state Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn won the state, including the two Left-leaning counties of Racine and Kenosha.
The wind in the Republicans' back started to sputter in 2018 when Scott Walker narrowly lost his third bid for governor to Democrat Tony Evers and continued to do so in 2020 when that slim win Wisconsin voters gave Donald Trump in 2016, the first win for a Republican candidate for president in decades, swung back to the Democrats and handed Joe Biden a slim but significant victory.
Thanks to the amount of outside money Democrats have invested in retaking this state, they have rebuilt the state party’s now-formidable organizing machine and are poised to now be able to eliminate the Republicans' near supermajority in both legislative chambers, as well, perhaps, as their edge in the congressional delegation. Protasiewicz promises to challenge the district lines as political gerrymanders.
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