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What does it take to get off Wisconsin's ballot? You have one option Robert F. Kennedy’s name will stay on Wisconsin’s presidential election ballot, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, ending the former independent presidential candidate’s hopes of not competing with former President Donald Trump in the battleground state in November. In a unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed Kennedy’s lawsuit, which he filed in August against the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The lawsuit sought to either remove his name from the ballot or require clerks to place a sticker on each ballot to cover it up. In an unsigned...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) appeared to call Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) a “little b‑‑‑‑” after an awkward exchange with former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) at the Republican National Convention. Gaetz taunted McCarthy on the floor of the convention on Tuesday night, telling the former speaker that he would “get booed off the stage” if he were to speak at the event. Van Orden reacted to a clip of the exchange on social media platform X, where he pushed back on a description of the incident that said Gaetz needed to be “physically held back” by security. “I just saw...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump, including a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, submitted more than 9,000 signatures on Tuesday in an effort to force a recall election of Wisconsin’s top elected Republican after their first attempt fell short. They targeted Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the longest-serving Assembly speaker in Wisconsin history, after he refused to impeach the official who oversees the battleground state’s elections, angering Trump and his followers. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission must determine whether there are enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election. The panel rejected the first attempt for not having enough valid signatures....

RINO Representative Mike Gallagher (WI) will exit the House as early as next month. Gallagher, who is currently serving as the chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, last month announced that he will not seek reelection. Instead of serving out the rest of his term, Gallagher will retire early leaving the GOP with a one-vote majority! But it’s worse than that. Gallagher announced he will leave in mid-April. If Gallagher would have left before April 9th he would have triggered a special election in his district. Because he is leaving after April 9th but still in...

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., announced Friday that he would be resign from Congress early, leaving the House GOP with a slim one-vote majority. He confirmed in a statement on X that he will resign effective April 19.