Hovde’s Lowlight Reel: The Worst Eric Hovde Moments From This Week

MADISON, Wis. — Despite finally receiving the Republican nomination for Senate 12 years after first starting his political career, Eric Hovde kicked off the general election with a series of bad headlines, bizarre statements, embarrassing quotes from members of his own party, and inability to answer simple questions about his conflicts of interest.

As Hovde continues slipping up on the campaign trail, more and more Wisconsinites are seeing him for exactly who he is: a California bank owner and walking conflict of interest who does not care about the people of Wisconsin.

See Hovde’s worst moments from the first week of the general election:

1. Hovde refused to answer questions about his net worth and the foreign entities filling his bank with deposits. Hovde refused to say how much he’s really worth—yet again. When asked how much he’s worth, Hovde flat out refused to answer the question. And when asked about the foreign entities filling his bank with deposits, Hovde ducked again, and wouldn’t say which countries had deposits in his bank.

1. State Senator Kelda Roys and Representative Tip McGuire called out Eric Hovde for being a ‘walking conflict of interest.’ On Wednesday, Sen. Roys called out Hovde for running for Senate to pad his California bank’s bottom line and make himself richer, and Rep. McGuire criticized Hovde and his constant stream of insults towards working families in Wisconsin.

1. Hovde forced multiple small businesses into bankruptcy. A new report from the American Journal News revealed that Hovde’s bank has foreclosed on at least 25 small businesses, including a company owned by a disabled veteran aimed at helping other disabled veterans. These foreclosures forced many businesses into bankruptcy, devastating the working families behind them.

1. Hovde bizarrely and falsely claimed that Democrats manufactured outrage and political stunts over the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin for electoral gain. Hovde went on a conservative podcast and accused former President Barack Obama and the Democratic party of weaponizing conflicts between police and Black men to create “maximum anger” before the election, spreading blatantly false conspiracy theories about these tragic deaths.
2. After Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman said Hovde is running a “terrible campaign” and Republican operatives called his campaign “underwhelming,” Hovde lost 75,000 Republican primary votes to “nominal” candidates, despite outspending his primary challengers 450:1.

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.