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The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying to elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration, with the long-term aim of helping the Democratic Party claw back voters it lost in the November election. Priorities USA Action is merging with a nonprofit voting rights group called Every Citizen Counts to form an expanded organization with an ambitious agenda, according to veteran Democratic strategist Guy Cecil, who ran both organizations and will lead the merged group.
Michigan's ... /Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP). Diane Petryk of Lansing, Mich., holds a sign that says, "Let the Recount continue" to rally and speak out against the courts decision to shut down the recount, at the ... .
Court records show a 27-year old woman in Fox Lake died of a gun shot wound to the head. Authorities say the body of Sesalie Dixon was found in a truck at a home at 100 We-Go Trail Sunday.
Nicole Kirby looks over results during a statewide presidential election recount Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Milwaukee. The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years began Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton after polls long predicted a Clinton victory.
The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years was set to begin Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton after polls long predicted a Clinton victory. Presidential election recount set to begin in Wisconsin, a state where Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton (AFP The recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein carries none of the drama of the Florida presidential recount of 2000, when the outcome of the election between Al Gore and George W. Bush hung in the balance.
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president on the November 8 ballot, filed a request for a recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results shortly before the state's Friday deadline. But after Wisconsin's Elections Commission denied Stein's request that ballots be counted by hand, Stein's campaign filed a lawsuit demanding all ballots be manually counted, rather than by optical scanners.
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Two weeks after a stunning election defeat, Wisconsin Democrats won an equally surprising legal victory Monday as a federal court struck down legislative maps drawn by Republicans in 2011. A panel of federal judges ruled 2-1 that the redistricting maps were "intended to burden the representational rights of Democratic voters throughout the [10-year] period by impeding their ability to translate their votes into legislative seats."
Federal judges struck down Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legislature to redraw the maps. The three-judge panel didn't order any immediate changes to district boundaries, instead saying they would give state attorneys and the voters who challenged the old maps 45 days to offer suggestions.
With the 2016 election, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Wisconsin in nearly 30 years and Republicans took control of nearly two-thirds of the Legislature, including their largest majority in the Assembly since 1957, despite a roughly even split of votes between Democrats and Republicans in statewide races. On Monday, a federal court overturned Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative maps as an "unconstitutional gerrymander" that likely played a major factor in the party's disproportionate electoral success.
The unprecedented Trump victory led to a GOP wave in Wisconsin, with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson winning his re-election bid by even wider margins than Trump and state Republicans poised to expand their majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature. In a victory speech that was more mellow than his usual stump speech rhetoric, Trump struck a conciliatory tone as he told supporters that Democrat Hillary Clinton called him to concede.
A long campaign season that began more than a year ago is finally coming to a head in Wisconsin as voters prepare to make their choices for president, U.S. Senate and which party will control the Legislature. The biggest contest by far is the presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
Wisconsin's U.S. Senate candidates debated for the first time Friday night in Green Bay. Incumbent Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Russ Feingold answered questions from a media panel in a one hour debate sponsored by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
First Trump-Ryan appearance derailed by Trump tape Already tricky, Ryan relationship wth Trump just became even more fraught Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://on.jsonl.in/2eb6RWY Donald Trump is under fire after a video from 2005 surfaced in which he can be heard making lewd comments about women. If the politics of sharing a stage with Donald Trump weren't complicated enough, they became untenable Friday for Wisconsin's top three GOP politicians, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
About 1 in 3 absentee ballots cast in Wisconsin so far have come from the state's largest and most heavily Democratic counties, giving Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign a reason to be optimistic about its chances here, even as polls show a tight race with Republican Donald Trump. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, in a conference call with reporters on Thursday, singled out Dane and Milwaukee counties as places around the country where early voting turnout was strong.
Gov. Scott Walker has asked a federal agency to assess damage to roads and bridges caused by recent floods and mudslides in western Wisconsin. Walker's office said Friday the governor requested the Federal Emergency Management Agency conduct a preliminary damage assessment of public infrastructure in 12 counties.
Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition's Annual Family Fall Banquet, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.