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riversedge

(70,580 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 08:54 AM Oct 2022

In Wisconsin, voters shrug off GOP candidate's Jan. 6 tie (replacing Dem. Rep. Ron Kind)....

Dems need to be talking about how Repugs will cut SS.




In Wisconsin, voters shrug off GOP candidate’s Jan. 6 tie

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-presidential-washington-election-2020-donald-trump-35be0e64d964726eacad5c4eda20d422


By THOMAS BEAUMONTOctober 16, 2022


.................“I think it’s the No. 1 issue. It’s the underlying issue of this race,” Pfaff said in an interview. “Jan. 6 opened up the window into his soul. And what we saw there, is we saw something that is unfortunately very dark.”

Pfaff acknowledges he is trailing the Republican, who has a vast fundraising edge.

Van Orden’s campaign declined to make him available for an interview with The Associated Press.

Some voters in the 3rd Congressional District, a sprawling landscape of dairy farms, small manufacturing hubs and college towns, have sharply negative views of what happened Jan. 6. But that doesn’t mean they blame Van Orden......................

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In Wisconsin, voters shrug off GOP candidate's Jan. 6 tie (replacing Dem. Rep. Ron Kind).... (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2022 OP
We also have one of those rat bastards running in my district in Ohio. blueinredohio Oct 2022 #1
Is CD3 in WI a Newly Drawn District? Cook Has it Rated Likely Republican. Indykatie Oct 2022 #2
I don't know about WI but this district in Ohio is newly drawn blueinredohio Oct 2022 #3
Yes. sybylla Oct 2022 #4

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
1. We also have one of those rat bastards running in my district in Ohio.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 09:40 AM
Oct 2022

I'm hoping the older voters (even though republican) will not vote for a traitor. But I won't be surprised if he wins.

Indykatie

(3,700 posts)
2. Is CD3 in WI a Newly Drawn District? Cook Has it Rated Likely Republican.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 09:56 AM
Oct 2022

That seems weird if a Dem holds the seat now.

sybylla

(8,557 posts)
4. Yes.
Fri Oct 28, 2022, 03:32 PM
Oct 2022

In 2012 they gerrymandered it so that it was pretty strongly Dem (because of a couple of Dem college towns in the rural parts). Now they've gerrymandered again, weakening it a bit.

And the GQP are putting a ton of money on the insurrectionist.

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