Elections

Rep. Greta Neubauer will once again lead Assembly Democrats as the party takes up a larger share of the chamber going into the next legislative session.

Republican Eric Hovde has conceded Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race to Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. His announcement comes more than a week after unofficial totals showed Baldwin won the race by about 29,000 votes.

More Wisconsin Latinos voted for President-elect Donald Trump this election than in 2020. Now, both major political parties are trying to figure out how to appeal to this growing and diverse group of voters.

The chair of Wisconsin Democrats is reportedly being considered for a national leadership position with the Democratic National Committee.

According to the Marquette poll, only 44 percent of surveyed Wisconsinites said they were “living comfortably” in October 2024.

Robin Vos, the powerful speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, has been selected by GOP lawmakers to continue in that role, one week after an election that shook up the composition of the Legislature but left Republicans in control.

When U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin narrowly won reelection to her seat last week, she was one of a handful of progressive Democrats elected to national office in the same state that also voted to send President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House.

After nearly a week of silence, Republican Eric Hovde said Tuesday that he lost his race to Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, moments after releasing a video where he called into question the results of their November election.

Statewide election margins were narrow, but many of Wisconsin’s college neighborhoods saw strong Republican gains.

Katherine Cramer’s influential book “The Politics of Resentment” was published eight years ago. Could it still hold answers about Wisconsin’s rightward swing?