Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley has won the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin, according to a race call by the Associated Press. He narrowly defeated state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist whose campaign had challenged the party establishment.
Crowley had at one point actually suspended his foundering campaign, facing low poll ratings and scarce campaign funds. But he relaunched it days later with the backing of outgoing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in an effort to turn back the momentum by Hong.
The Hong loss comes after progressives saw a series of wins in recent primaries around the country. But the narrow margin of the loss still signals Democratic voters seeking change.
“Low poll ratings and scarce campaign funds” sounds like a great way to go into the general election. Sounds like Wisconsin dems prefer a republican governor over DSA.
All that goofy stuff she said in the past doomed her.
There is a good reason why Bernie Sanders, Mamdani and AOC refused to endorse her.
This is such nonsensical bullshit. A tweet Hong made about Thanksgiving 6 years ago is not indicative of her actual policies today. She was never going to use the power of Governor to cancel Thanksgiving or whatever.
David Crowley’s policies are far more likely to cancel Thanksgiving, what with him being friendly and open to opening data centers in the state. Data centers are highly unpopular in Wisconsin and Hong was the only Dem candidate willing to promise a moratorium on them like the people want. People making a big stink about “electability” or “Woke 1.0” are shifting attention away from important current day politics to nonsensical culture war distractions.
I agree with you, but it’s not great that we’ve cultivated an electorate that doesn’t account for people growing or changing their past positions.
Ah well, Wisconsin will get the representative they vote for; let’s hope it works out for them.
ah the hasan piker defense
“it was out of context and been apologised for already”
translation
“i’m a radicalised hypocrite that cannot be trusted”
the electorate figured out your bullshit