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Minnesota Governor and Democratic nominee for Vice President Tim Walz suddenly stopped his speech in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday after noticing a crowd member was in need of help due to the heat. Walz, who was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate on Tuesday, paused his speech after a crowd member could be heard yelling for help. The governor stopped talking and pointed toward the situation, saying, "Can we get somebody to help? Somebody's hot." "You okay?" Walz asked looking toward the crowd. "Drink some water folks, it is hot out." The governor continued his speech after...

Kamala Harris and her creepy, Marxist, stolen valor running mate Tim Walz are holding a rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Wednesday. Only it’s not a campaign rally. The Harris-Walz ‘rally’ is actually a concert with hometown talent. Grammy award-winning indie folk band Bon Iver is performing at Harris’ campaign. The band’s singer, Justin Vernon, is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Don’t be fooled by the size of the crowd in Eau Claire. This is a Bon Iver concert. “Vice President Harris will draw from some hometown talent on Wednesday when Bon Iver performs at a rally in Eau Claire, Wis....

MADISON, Wis. -- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz beat out Democratic governors and senators from across the East and West coast to be named the Vice Presidential nominee running alongside Kamala Harris. But what do Wisconsin voters think of our Midwestern neighbor getting on the ticket? "I think Walz is more consequential for Wisconsin than the other possible candidates were," Barry Burden, Political Science Professor and Director of UW-Madison's Elections Research Center said. And some Wisconsin voters seemed to agree Tuesday, like Rod Rotar after watching Walz's acceptance speech in Pennsylvania. He spoke to News 3 Now after grocery shopping on...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro broke his silence about not joining the 2024 Democratic ticket as the vice presidential candidate — with sources attributing presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ snub to her fear that he would steal the “spotlight” and alienate the party’s progressive base over his support for Israel. ... Hank Sheinkopf told The Post that Shapiro was too hot to pick as Harris’ running mate because of his pro-Israel record, and that Waltz was a safer choice. “The ticket would have been too pro-Israel. Harris doesn’t need a battle over Israel-Gaza,” said Sheinkopf, who worked on Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign....

With the Democratic base seemingly mobilized after replacing President Biden at the top of the ticket, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are dead even in the battleground states, a new poll revealed. Trump and Harris notched 50% apiece in the battleground state average, and the vice president scored a one-point lead over the Republican nominee in a national head-to-head matchup, a CBS News/YouGov poll found, garnering 50% to Trump’s 49%. Republicans haven’t won the national popular vote in a presidential election since 2004. In the battleground states, Michigan went 48% Harris to 48% Trump, with Pennsylvania...

Voters in Wisconsin have revealed how crippling house prices have become a key issue for those living in the battleground state. Prices in Wisconsin are now $333,200, with more than half selling for above listing price in June, according to Redfin. The cost of a home has soared by eight percent in the last year, making it the largest increase in any of the swing states.

“What you have is statistical ties across almost every single recent poll,” said Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist and public opinion expert. “Are Democrats discounting the threat that Trump poses even with his series of indictments? Absolutely.” Most political experts believe the 2024 election is likely to be close in terms of the all-important Electoral College and that the number of swing voters will be small. Even in losing, Trump won far more votes than any Republican ever had in battlegrounds such as Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Michigan.

Anyone who thought America learned from the 2020 Presidential election debacle is sadly mistaken. The Washington Post on Saturday reported that votes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two must-win swing states for President Trump and Kamala Harris, will likely take several days to count because of Democrat-friendly absentee ballots, just like in 2020. The Post notes that Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are two of the only states that do not allow pre-canvassing — the act of opening and processing mail ballots ahead of Election Day. Rachel Orey, an elections expert at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told the Post that if the election...

After 25 years, Wisconsin anglers won back the right to carry guns while fishing, but some Wyoming anglers said it would be stupid to ever give that right up in the first place. Particularly where grizzlies are lumbering about, a .44 magnum could be part of the well-equipped Wyoming angler’s kit. Even so, don’t entertain any thoughts of leveling your hand-cannon at a trout in a “make my day” moment with a menacing snarl like Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” character. It remains patently illegal to shoot fish with a firearm in Wyoming or Wisconsin. Indeed, people who try to blast...

It's been nearly 3 months since Milwaukee Elections Director Claire Woodall was fired for printing 64K ballots with Biden's name on them, in the back conference room of City Hall on election day 2020. Trump only lost Wisconsin by 20K votes! The media remains SILENT as usual! ... Democrat Mayor said nothing to see here, but I don't buy that. ... evidence of mass election fraud in every single swing state, the judges have no ... Just like paper money has a serial number, voting ballots should have a serial number also. ... they will do it again.

MSDNC interviewer shocked by responses from WI female voters.

A UW-Madison professor is revisiting "Hillbilly Elegy"-- JD Vance’s memoir-- eight years after the book was picked by the university as the "Go Big Read" book of the year. Hillbilly Elegy describes Vance’s experience in Appalachia, Kentucky and upbringing in Middletown, Ohio– diving into concepts such as poverty, addiction, and "hillbilly culture." This was published in 2016, and in 2017 UW-Madison chose to distribute the book through the “Go Big Read” reading program. This program selects one book per academic year to give to all the incoming freshmen and center discussion around the book’s themes, like a massive book club....

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) announced he would boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “wildly inappropriate” joint address to Congress on Wednesday, insisting he would rather serve the Israeli leader an arrest warrant for war crimes on the House floor. In a press release published shortly before the long-awaited congressional address, Pocan declared he would not attend the event, citing Netanyahu’s “deadly and excessive response” to Hamas’s unprecedented, unprovoked, and brutal October 7, 2023, attack, the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.

In an extraordinary moment, a heartfelt prayer was offered by an air traffic controller for former President Donald Trump’s plane, Trump Force One, as it departed Milwaukee early Friday morning. This rare event occurred after Trump and former First Lady Melania concluded their presence at the Republican National Convention and Trump’s recent assassination attempt last week. Former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump left Milwaukee at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Friday. They boarded Trump Force One, the nickname given to the Trump Organization’s Boeing 757, drawing a parallel to the official U.S. presidential aircraft, Air Force One....

A bombshell new poll has predicted which presidential candidate will win the election based on a 'no tossup' electoral map. RealClearPolitics showed Trump taking multiple swing states in the Rust Belt region - in addition to one that hasn't been nabbed by a Republican in decades. The map shows Trump winning in Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and even Virginia. Biden won Virginia in 2020 by 10 points and no Republican has taken the state since former president George W. Bush did so in 2004. The RCP map shows that, as of late July, Trump will win the election 325-213...

A photo emerged of media magnate Rupert Murdoch sulking alongside Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night. (snip) “Rupert was in an ornery mood. He was lashing out at event staff and spewing profanity. He doesn’t like losing and this was a huge loss for him. At one point Don Jr’s face appeared on the Jumbotron and Rupert shook his fist and screamed something unintelligible,” a source who witnessed Murdoch’s tantrum said.

Subway has been accused of religious discrimination against Christians after an outlet in Wisconsin refused to serve customers because of the anti-abortion and anti-gay messages on their T-shirts. Street preacher David Grisham was in town for the Republican National Convention when he and three friends popped into a Waunakee branch of the fast-food franchise to grab a sandwich. But they were forced to go elsewhere when a young woman behind the counter confirmed she was refusing to serve the group because of the messages on their T-shirts. The world's largest restaurant operator has now been hit with a deluge of...

Kamala Harris has suffered a blow in a poll that looked at how alternative Democratic candidates would do in swing states. There have been calls for U.S. President Joe Biden to be replaced as the Democratic candidate since the world watched his poor performance in his debate with Donald Trump on June 27. Many have assumed the vice president would be the obvious choice, but a new poll shows she doesn't fare as well as others, and she wasn't among the four who performed best. Analytics company BlueLabs carried out research to determine who would increase the number of people...

Make America Strong Once Again

There is only one Democrat who thinks he’s winning or in a good position to win: Joe Biden. Every other member of his party, excluding his Rasputin-like inner circle, knows he’s in trouble. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) reportedly told donors that House Democrats face annihilation if the president remains in the race. The polling reflects that the map has only improved for Donald Trump ever since Biden’s abysmal June 27 debate. CNN’s John King’s projection of the 2024 race isn’t just brutal for Joe Biden; it’s also something of an epitaph. We’re sixteen weeks away from Election Day, and with...