Anya van Wagtendonk

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Who will Wisconsin Democrats pick to run for governor? · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

are pretty opposed to the data center boom that's been going on here in Wisconsin.

And so that could be a really important issue in this race.

I mean, I guess it depends on who you ask whether you would describe this as putting a thumb on the scale.

But, you know, it's not an accident that David Crowley re-entered the race 10 days after dropping out.

He came back because Rodriguez was out, but then also because he was able to get the endorsement of our current outgoing president.

Democratic Governor Tony Evers, who up until this point had said that he was going to stay neutral.

But his endorsement is kind of the thing that got Crowley back into the race.

And so if that's not a signal that some level of traditional Democrats are trying to at least wield some amount of influence and make him a more serious contender, I don't know what would be.

But, you know, Tam talked about the platonic ideal of an establishment versus progressive candidate.

This is a much more, I think, muddied kind of matchup because David Crowley is a black man from Milwaukee.

There has never been a governor in Wisconsin that has not been a white man.

And so he up until this point, there was a question of electability around him and whether Wisconsin was ready for that kind of thing.

And so, you know, a lot of his supporters are now saying that he's being held to this double standard.

He can't both be to establishment and, you know, a historic first potentially.

Yeah, you know, he entered the race a little bit later with this understanding that he was going to come in with a huge war chest because of that national name recognition.

And that never quite materialized.

And I think that's because a lot of these national Democrats are concerned that because he did not win a U.S.

Senate race against Ron Johnson, who was at the time a pretty unpopular incumbent, that he just doesn't have what it takes to win.

Again, I think Wisconsinites tend to play a little bit of 3D chess when it comes to casting their votes, not just what candidate do I like, but who do I think can win in this super tight swing state.

And so one of the other kind of criticisms I've also heard from, you know, again, sort of Democratic strategists and observers is that Crowley getting back in the race only serves to split votes away from Mandela Barnes rather than positioning himself as a true kind of alternative candidate.

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