Winners have emerged from primaries across “America’s Dairyland,” Wisconsin.
One is Eric Hovde, the Republican businessman now slated to take on Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) in November.
“Thank you, Wisconsin! I look forward to earning everyone’s support this November. We’ve got a country to go save,” Hovde wrote on X soon after the polls closed on Aug. 13. While victory had not been declared by the Associated Press, neither of his challengers were considered likely to win.
The AP named him the winner at 8:20 p.m. local time, 20 minutes after the polls closed. With 27 percent of the total counted, he had 88.7 percent. His rivals Rejani Raveendran and Charles Barman had earned 5.1 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively….