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The candidates for the Nov. 3 election have accepted their party nominations. Who will win the key battleground state of Wisconsin?
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Still, last-minute court rulings could mean results being delayed in Wisconsin by days.
Big margins in northern Wisconsin were critical to President Donald Trump's 2016 win in Wisconsin.
The few Wisconsin delegates who traveled to this week’s Republican National Convention in North Carolina said the event — which was downsized …
Only four of Wisconsin's 52 GOP delegates plan to attend the scaled-down Charlotte convention, while others will watch from home.
At one point, Baldwin was considered near the top of Biden's list of potential picks to run alongside him for the presidency this fall.
Kicking off the DNC on Wednesday from the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Evers expressed regret that the convention, which shifted last week to a mostly online event due to COVID-19, could not be held in-person.
"As we all recognize, it’s not exactly what we thought it was going to be, but what we’ve been forced to deal with," Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said of the first-of-its-kind convention.
In addition to once boasting more than 50,000 visitors and hundreds of millions of tourism dollars, Milwaukee's political bash also aimed to cleanse Democrats' palate of Trump's margin-thin victory over Hillary Clinton here in 2016.
Biden leads Trump 49% to 43% among Wisconsin respondents. Biden's lead in Wisconsin widens to 52% to 44% among voters who say they are "certain" to vote in November.
Biden led by a 6-point margin among likely voters over Trump in a June Marquette poll.
Republican President Donald Trump also has caused controversy for saying he might deliver acceptance speech at White House.
Community organizers in Milwaukee have shifted their voter outreach programs to focus on mail-in absentee ballot education.
The poll also found former Vice President Joe Biden widening his lead over President Donald Trump in the state and a declining concern among Wisconsinites over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Perceptions of whether or not the president delivered on the promises he made during his 2016 campaign differ drastically along party lines.
The latest poll's results come as Wisconsin faces unprecedented unemployment numbers, which have risen sharply following state efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 by shutting down some businesses or limiting services at others.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won the state four years ago, was still in the race when the polls closed last Tuesday, but he suspended his campaign the following day — nearly a week before results would be reported. On Monday, he endorsed Joe Biden.
Organizers are searching for ways to empower voters in communities of color and low-income areas that saw a decrease in turnout during the 2016 general election.
As the remaining Democratic presidential candidates look to begin large-scale campaign efforts in Wisconsin, they enter a battleground state that already has received considerable attention from President Donald Trump.
In this week’s Front Page podcast, Wisconsin State Journal state and politics reporter Mitchell Schmidt discusses the field of candidates, the upsets, the victories, and what Wisconsin voters will have to look forward to, as we near the Democratic National Convention.
All other major candidates in the race received between 9 and 17% support.
In the general election, President Donald Trump faces a tight race against the Democratic field in Wisconsin.
Results of a new Wisconsin state-wide poll, released Sunday, show Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in a commanding lead ahead of Democratic presidential nominees. But, given the surprise outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the question remains: How accurate are political polls in an election year?
UW-Madison's Elections Research Center plans to launch a new poll to complement the Marquette Law School Poll.
The new poll of voters in the key battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania found Biden leading Trump and a stark contrast between their voters in what they view as the most important issues facing the country.
A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state.
Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson has shaken up staffing, tapping two people who have previously worked for him and promoting a current System employee to report directly to him.
Left out: How the federal COVID-19 formula hurt some of Wisconsin’s most vulnerable college students
UW-Madison received $422 per student in CARES money whereas Madison College got $249 per student.
"What's really exciting is Haribo is moving forward despite the pandemic," WEDC Secretary Melissa Hughes said Monday. "It really gives us a lot of optimism for our future in that Haribo is still coming to town and they're coming soon."
The university estimates about $320 million in revenue losses and increased costs from March through the end of this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
As local polling sites continue to report election results, state Republicans look for potential gains toward veto-proof majorities in the Senate and Assembly.
Trump supporters at the rally were quick to suggest that Biden's lead was proof of something untoward, but offered no solid examples of fraud.
Newly elected Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu on Wednesday announced that Sen. Howard Marklein would be replacing Sen. Alberta Darling as co-chair to the state's powerful budget committee.
A winter storm watch is in effect from noon Tuesday to 3 p.m. Wednesday for the counties of Rock, Walworth, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, as well as northern Illinois, according to the National Weather Service.
Democrats are making new moves toward a virtual presidential nominating convention this August, with a top party committee voting Tuesday to grant convention organizers in Milwaukee the authority to design an event that won’t require delegates to attend in person amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
With five months until the election, Trump has time to solidify his standing. But some Republicans fear voters are simply worn out by Trump.
Democrats are trying to prevent Republicans from winning six legislative seats that would give them a veto-proof majority.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin raised more than $7.5 million over the last three months, compared with about $728,000 raised by the state Republican Party.
Vice President Mike Pence said the election will determine "whether America remains America."
U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, whose Milwaukee district includes the site of the convention, will speak on the opening night Monday.
As with nearly every aspect of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Tuesday's roll call differed greatly from previous in-person events.
Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday he had temporarily suspended fundraising for his own reelection to focus on the Democrats' "Save the Veto" campaign.
Democrats allege that Republicans are pushing West's candidacy in several swing states to siphon Black votes away from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"There’s just kind of a sense of resignation," said Madison voter Meghan O’Donnell, who doesn't feel inspired by Biden but plans to vote for him.
The RNC has included several speakers from Wisconsin, though unlike the DNC, they aren't widely known elected officials.
Since late April, customers have spent more than $845,000 with vendors.
According to the poll, 47% of likely voters in the crucial swing state say they would back former Vice President Joe Biden and 43% would support Republican President Donald Trump.
Ultimately, the nine-member commission will present nonpartisan district maps to the state Legislature, who has the final say on how those maps are drawn.
The elections commission in March banned deputies from entering facilities for the state's April presidential primary.
State party spokesman Phil Shulman said Monday that he doesn't know how much was raised in total.
Vice President Mike Pence has been a frequent visitor to battleground Wisconsin, having stopped in La Crosse just last week.
State Republicans are within six wins of securing a veto-proof majority in the Wisconsin Legislature, which would give the GOP the votes necessary to override any veto by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The original cast from the beloved 1987 film reunited Sunday for the reading along with guest stars Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Idle of Monty Python and Josh Gad.
By almost any measure, President Trump's promises of an economic revival in places like Appleton have gone unfulfilled.
Despite a national report raising the possibility, Wisconsin statute does not grant state lawmakers the ability to choose electors.
A conservative group has filed a lawsuit seeking to block more than $6.3 million in federal election grants designated for five Wisconsin cities, including Madison, claiming the money constitutes bribery to boost voting in progressive communities.
State elections officials anticipate as many as 2 million people will cast absentee ballots in the Nov. 3 election, due in large part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The city of Madison collected 10,813 absentee ballots from local residents at this weekend’s Democracy in the Park event, which state Republicans tried to halt.
The decision, if it stands, means that ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 3 will be counted as long as they are received by Nov. 9.
The filing came a day after the appeals court vacated its stay of a lower court ruling that granted the six-day extension for counting ballots.
The president had intended to lead rallies in Green Bay and Janesville after canceling a visit to La Crosse, but his positive test for COVID-19 throws those plans into disarray.
President Donald Trump has canceled rallies planned for Saturday in two Wisconsin cities after the president tested positive for COVID-19.
A top GOP official said Trump's COVID-19 infection underscores the need to emphasize campaign practices that don’t involve direct interaction with voters.
Milwaukee's election commission had planned to use Fiserv Forum and Miller Park between Oct. 20 and Nov. 1 as sites where people could have voted early in-person or returned absentee ballots they received by mail.
Vice President Mike Pence plans to make a campaign stop Tuesday at a manufacturing company in Waukesha, the Trump campaign announced Thursday.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a conservative group's request to block more than $6.3 million in private federal election grants designated for five Wisconsin cities, including Madison.
As the state — much like the rest of the nation — continues to navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced businesses to shutter and unemployment rates to skyrocket, Trump enters a community all too familiar with economic hardship.
The Trump Campaign announced Sunday that Ivanka Trump would be visiting Milwaukee on Tuesday.
The window to vote early and in-person will remain open for 11 days, until Nov. 1.
Joe Biden holds a 9-point lead over Trump in Wisconsin, a statistically significant margin outside the poll's margin of error.
With less than a week until Election Day, multiple polls in Wisconsin show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden maintaining his lead over Republican President Donald Trump here in the battleground state.