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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Wisconsin to headline a pair of rallies featuring candidates for top offices in the state. Sanders was to hold rallies Monday in Milwaukee and Kenosha.
This November's elections are shaping up to be among the most consequential in recent U.S. history. Throughout the summer and fall, we are taking a look at the best candidates for working people.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir, right, stand onstage before the start of the U.S. Senate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Milwaukee. Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir, right, stand onstage before the start of the U.S. Senate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Milwaukee.
The first debate between U.S. Senate candidates Tammy Baldwin and Leah Vukmir turned tense and combative as they clashed over abortion, immigration, health care and a host of other issues. The Republican Vukmir is down in the polls to the Democratic incumbent Baldwin.
Bill Chandler, a team leader at the Whitewater office for the Democrats of Walworth County, speaks to residents about the November election while canvassing on East Main Street in Whitewater. Field organizer Brent Efron, left, and Austin Kieler, right, the campaign manager for Democratic congressional candidate Tom Palzewicz, sort literature for canvassers at the party's Whitewater office.
For four years, Sen. Tammy Baldwin sat around doing nothing during her Senate term, and now in the last two years, she's trying to tell us what a great asset she is for the state of Wisconsin. An obstructionist is an asset? She voted against the tax cuts, which, as all can see, has been a blessing to our economy.
As part of a sweeping appropriations bill, lawmakers provided $300,000 to establish the nation's first family caregiving advisory council. The measure is expected to go to President Donald Trump next week.
When politicians campaign for office, it's common to find family members by their side. These days, office-seekers might be advised to watch their backs.
Arizona Republican Congressional District 1 candidate Paul Gosar talks to the crowd as he attends a Western Pinal Republican Club event where local Republicans and supporters gathered at Eva's Fine Mexican Restaurant Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Six siblings of Republican Rep. Paul Gosar delivered a stark message in a new television advertisement: Vote for their brother's opponent. The Democrat challenging Gosar in Arizona's 4th District unveiled a new ad Friday that features Grace, David, Jennifer, Tim, Joan, and Gaston lambasting Gosar over Social Security, health care, water policy and more.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when they were both in high school are credible. Baldwin tweeted her reaction Monday.
There are several reasons why Republican Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers won't meet Kimberly-Clark's ultimatum to approve Foxconn-like tax breaks by Sept. 30. "We've requested that the vote occur by the end of September," Kimberly-Clark official Brook Smith told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week.
Few gave the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Wisconsin much of a chance of defeating her better-funded primary challenger last month, but she prevailed thanks largely to support from the party establishment. Now Vukmir faces another opponent with deeper pockets - Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin - in one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.
The Republican trying to knock off Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin is used to being the underdog. Leah Vukmir wasn't given much of a chance in last month's primary before she beat a better-funded opponent.
Republican Richard Uihlein and Democrat Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the 2018 campaign. And their political parties are irritated about it.
Democrats will try forcing a campaign-season vote on blocking a Trump administration rule letting insurers sell short-term plans that are cheaper but skimpier than allowed under the Obama health care law, party leaders said Thursday. Though the effort has a chance of passing the narrowly divided Senate, it is certain to die in the Republican-controlled House and would never be signed by President Donald Trump.
A new poll suggests that Governor Scott Walker could be in trouble as he seeks a third term as Governor of Wisconsin, but he's been counted out before only bounce back and confound the doubters. A new poll from NBC News and Marist College shows Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker trailing a Democratic challenger by double-digits, part of a raft of rough results for Republicans across three Midwestern states.
Legislation proposed by Florida's Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Maryland's Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen gained eight new cosponsors on Thursday, the same day senators and the White House clashed over how to handle Russia and US relations. The legislation was originally proposed in January but gained new prominence after President Donald Trump's one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday -- and after the White House temporarily entertained the idea of sending US officials to be interrogated by Russians in exchange for Russian cooperation with the investigation into its interference in the 2016 US election.
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy immediately set off a rush of political jockeying ahead of what promises to be a lengthy and contentious confirmation battle. The most immediate target for Republicans included a familiar list of names, including North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp.