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Baldwin announced Friday that the former presidential candidate will appear with her at a rally in Eau Claire on July 14. Baldwin's race is a top target for Republicans. State Sen. Leah Vukmir and Delafield management consultant Kevin Nicholson face each other in the GOP primary to be decided Aug. 14. Vukmir was holding a rally Friday with House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, both of whom recently endorsed her.
This frame grab from a video provided by the Leah for Senate campaign, shows Leah Vukmir, a Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate, sitting at a kitchen table with a handgun next to her as she talks about death threats she received.
OSHKOSH, Wis. - Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says powerful special interests are spending millions of dollars trying to defeat her "because they want a bought and paid for senator."
Baldwin, 56, is also gearing up for a reelection campaign that some are calling "Going into the 2018 cycle, I think for many, many reasons there's more interest [in the midterms]...[And] so many issues impacting young people are getting really strong public view," Baldwin tells "[When I was starting out] so many people were sayinga 'young people don't vote.' " Well, I couldn't get elected to office if young people didn't vote."
Illinois is worried that elaborate new barriers to stop Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan will bog down cargo shipping in its busy canals. The health of the Great Lakes is far more important to all of the Midwest and Canada than the parochial economic interests of shipping companies in greater Chicago.
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says his Democratic opponent is a "liberal activist" who would advance the Hillary Clinton agenda. Schimel faces Democrat Josh Kaul in November.
Feeling no relief from anti-incumbent Republican primaries, Democratic senators in GOP-leaning states are working to convince voters they're free of Washington's stigma. The Democrats seeking re-election this fall in states Republican Donald Trump carried - the battlefront in the fight for Senate control -are portraying themselves as independent actors and known entities in hopes of inoculating themselves against Republican accusations that they are lockstep obstructionists to Trump's agenda.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin has long targeted federal judicial nominee Gordon Giampietro. President Trump nominated Giampietro to serve in Wisconsin's Eastern District.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is running for re-election this year in Wisconsin, opened up Tuesday about her mother's mental illness and prescription drug addiction, in a moment of candor Baldwin hoped would empower others with similar experiences to come forward. "This epidemic hits close to home for me and for so many others," Baldwin said, sitting across the table from a Milwaukee woman who also told her story of her father's struggles with addiction.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, tells for the first time publicly the story of her mother's mental illness and addiction to prescription narcotics during a conversation with Morgan Thomas, of Milwaukee, as she runs for re-election, on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in Milwaukee. Thomas's father struggles with addiction and Baldwin had never previously told the story of her mother's problems which led to her being raised by her grandparents.
Margo Miller thanked her hosts, covered herself in a blue plastic poncho and headed back into the driving sleet Saturday morning, with more doors to knock on in this rural subdivision but with another new volunteer's name on her clipboard.
The Republican Governors Association said Monday it has booked $5.1 million in television ad buys for the fall in Wisconsin as Gov. Scott Walker warned on conservative talk radio that winning re-election will be more difficult than when he overcame a recall effort in 2012. News of the large ad buy comes after the Democratic Governors Association said last month it was spending $20 million in Wisconsin and three other battleground states that have Republican governors - Michigan, Nevada and Ohio.
Center-left candidate Rebecca Dallet and conservative Michael Screnock will face off next week in a technically nonpartisan election for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Scott Walker's fight with his state's judiciary over his efforts to avoid two state legislative special elections - which he has now abandoned - hasn't been the only Wisconsin news involving judges or elections.
Just when police in the La Crosse area thought they had almost eliminated meth as a major drug problem, it has made a comeback. That's what La Crosse County chief deputy Jeff Wolf told Sen. Tammy Baldwin and others at a drug roundtable held in La Crosse on Monday.
Not long ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the voice of a conservative revolution in the heartland, a Republican at the vanguard and a possible future president. Today, he's the voice of concern, warning his party - at home and nationally - that change is coming again.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin was back home in Wisconsin, talking about guns, health care and other issues before a politically minded luncheon crowd, when one of her Republican challengers rose to confront her. Why, state Sen. Leah Vukmir wondered, had Baldwin voted against the GOP tax overhaul that cut taxes for the middle class? Without a hint of irritation at the ambush, Baldwin quickly flipped the question, pointing out middle-class relief would be temporary and blaming the tax changes for a northeastern Wisconsin paper company laying off 600 workers.
In this Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Republican Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, standing, asks a question of Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin during a luncheon on in Madison, Wis. Vukmir is one of two Republicans running in the primary for a chance to take on Baldwin in the fall.
Last year at this time, many Republicans were optimistic about the opportunity to pick up enough Senate seats in 2018 to approach, or maybe even reach, a filibuster-proof majority - i.e. 60 seats. After all, ten seats held by Democrats in states carried by President Trump would be in play.
The snow fell quickly around southern Wisconsin and it caused several accidents and slide-offs for people trying to get home during rush hour. "It's like a blizzard out here," said tow truck driver Mark Mecum.