Dave Weigel
speaker
283 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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Wisconsin's primary was uh I don't like to use hyperbole, but one of the most dramatic elections I I've I've covered in person.
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It was a crowded primary.
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The lieutenant governor to two term governor Tony Evers was running.
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She wasn't getting a lot of momentum.
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Uh she made a bunch of big mistakes, and Francesca Hong, a state legislator from Madison, the most left wing candidate in the field, built a very strong campaign that kept rising.
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Most Democrats in Wisconsin thought, okay, we'll we'll sort this out later.
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We'll see who the alternatives are.
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The lieutenant governor collapsed because her campaign manager turned out to be faking her her finances.
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Governor Evers pulled in David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who had been running for governor, and dropped out, and he pulled him back into the race.
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And Everuse just declared to voters, Democratic voters, I believe that this guy who has not been my lieutenant governor, unlike someone else's in the race, is is uniquely qualified to take my place.
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And as he campaigned around the state with Crowley started started to say Hong cannot win.
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I'm worried that Hong cannot win.
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So Crowley went from and also ran when he was first in the race uh to polling about twenty points behind Hong to winning.
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And winning with a very high turnout.
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Yeah, so she is a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
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Her premise was that the state was ready for radical change.
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And Democrats are a little bit divided on the path forward, obviously, based on the results.
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Uh do we need somebody in the Evers mold but with a with a chance to actually get a governing trifecta?
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Or do we do we need a socialist who is t who is going to restructure the state's tax system?
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and this is very important to her campaign, uh put a moratorium on data centers.
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