“Wisconsin Republicans are reportedly terrified of him.”
Why are they terrified of a newspaper reporter? If they have done nothing in their personal and public lives to indicate they are immoral or criminals, they should have nothing to fear.
They can be pure as snow.
It does not matter. When you have a media willing to lie, and a court system rigged to protect the media, because politicians are, by nature "public figures", the media has been able to take down most politicians who they dislike.
That is the main reason for Republicans as assistant democrats.
The list of conservative politicians taken down by the Media is long.
Look at Donald Trump as an example.
The two biggest early examples are Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
False witness on page one this week, "oops" and retraction on page 45 after the election.