Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Election Results
MADISON, Wis. — Following Vice President Kamala Harris‘ remarks in Washington, D.C. this evening, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler issued the following statement:
“Wisconsin Democrats worked their hearts out to elect Vice President Harris to the presidency, but came up short. For so many Americans, especially members of communities whose freedoms, prosperity, and safety are now menaced by the shadow of Trump’s threats, the results of the presidential election are wrenching. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin stands in solidarity with all those now facing profound uncertainty and peril.
“The work to advance Democratic candidates and values made a difference at every level of the ballot. Wisconsin Democrats celebrate the election of Senator Tammy Baldwin to her third term. Democrats flipped all four targeted state Senate seats, ending the GOP’s supermajority and putting Democrats on track for a majority in 2026, and flipped 10 Assembly districts, ending the massive Republican margin created by gerrymandered maps. WisDems congratulates Democratic Senate leader Dianne Hesselbein and Assembly leader Greta Neubauer, as well as the extraordinary candidates, win or lose, who strove to advance freedom and democracy in Wisconsin during this intense campaign year. In the same spirit, the party is grateful to all those who poured themselves into House races, and congratulates Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore on their reelections.
“The work of Democrats on every level helped turn out a greater number of votes for Kamala Harris in Wisconsin than for any other candidate in Wisconsin history—other than Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2024. Wisconsin’s margin shifted 1.5 percentage points towards Trump from 2020 to 2024, less than the 4.1% average in the other battleground states and what appears to be an even larger shift nationwide, although votes are still being counted.
“We are grateful to Vice President Harris and Governor Walz for their leadership, and for the time and dedication of the tens of thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff—on the campaign, at the party, and with allied groups, who poured themselves into an urgent fight against formidable odds.
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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The Democratic Party needs to wake up and examine these 2024 results, along with the results from 2016. Is it an oversimplification to conclude that the Harris campaign was doomed from the start because of how easily her opponent could link her policies to those of Joe Biden? Possibly. And yet that strategy worked for The Clown and his Circus.
Is it an oversimplification to conclude that the “I’ll show you – I can do you one better” decision to fling open the southern border in 2021 by Joe Biden as a fix of a problem that has existed for decades was potential death to any non-Republican candidate in 2024? I don’t think so.
And the bipartisan bill that was created to address the border (made terribly worse by Biden’s open border policy) was easily suppressed by The Clown and his Circus so he could have the border issue to run on, proving that The Clown doesn’t really care one bit about fixing that issue. But did his voters care? Nope.
It is obvious that the majority of this country doesn’t care about any issues more than the ones that affect their income. And it is equally obvious how the Democrats chose to not recognize it, leaving huge numbers of Black and Latino voters no other choice than to grasp for the only lifesaver they felt was going to make things different for them. This reminds me of a scene from the movie “The American President”:
Lewis Rothschild: “People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.”
President Andrew Shepherd: “Lewis, we’ve had presidents who were beloved, who couldn’t find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. They drink the sand because they don’t know the difference.”
I detest The Clown and everyone in The Circus. I detest what they stand for, and even more, how they feel this country should be governed. Democrats need to find a moderate candidate and adopt a moderate platform that broadens their tent to encompass more people starving for the things that impact the masses, and turn a deaf ear to the AOC’s and Bernie Sanders wild, far-left views that everything in this country should be free for everyone.
Oversimplification? Probably.