Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin Defeats Eric Hovde | EUROtoday

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin was projected to win a 3rd time period within the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, dispatching Republican businessman Eric Hovde in one of many nation’s hardest-fought Senate races.

The victory is a key step towards Democrats limiting their losses within the Senate, the place Republicans are set to have a majority in 2025.

Her win, together with former President Donald Trump’s victory in Wisconsin, makes Baldwin solely the second senator prior to now decade to win reelection in a state the place a presidential candidate of the other social gathering triumphed.

Baldwin, the primary out lesbian elected to the Senate, ran a marketing campaign centered on defending abortion rights and reaching out to the state’s rural voters, even incomes the endorsement of the historically GOP-leaning Wisconsin Farm Bureau. She relentlessly attacked Hovde, a Wisconsin native who owns a financial institution primarily based on the West Coast, as an out-of-state and out-of-touch billionaire. She used previous clips of him disparaging farmers and different teams as a option to paint him as a “jerk.”

Hovde, who put $20 million of his personal cash into the race, ran on the signature points animating Republican campaigns this cycle, together with inflation, border safety and transgender participation in youth sports activities.

Polls indicated Baldwin had a small lead heading into the election.

Baldwin’s victory means Wisconsin will proceed as one of many few states within the union with a cut up Senate delegation. GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is Wisconsin’s different senator.

See full outcomes from the Wisconsin Senate election right here.