Democrats win big in Wisconsin special election, make big gains against GOP across the country
Democrats at the state level made crucial gains in a number of special election contests on Tuesday night. In one district, they even managed to flip a long-held Republican seat.
Following her victory in Wisconsin over Republican state Rep. Adam Jarchow (Balsam Lake), newly elected state Sen. Patty Schachtner told AP statehouse reporters that she won by sticking to her message. “My message has always been be kind, be considerate and we need to help people when they’re down,” she said. “We just need to be kind to people who are less fortunate and just help.” Schachtner fills the 10th District seat vacated by Republican state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, who took a job as Gov. Scott Walker’s agriculture secretary in November.
Wisconsin’s 10th District, which encompasses parts of Burnett, Polk, St. Croix, Pierce, and Dunn Counties, has been a Republican stronghold since 2001, when Harsdorf was first elected. In the 2016 election, President Trump swept the district by a margin of 16 points; Mitt Romney also won it in 2012, despite losing the state overall.
Schachtner told reporters on Tuesday that her victory could signal a bigger change afoot within both the state and the Democratic Party as a whole.
https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-special-elections-713965e20b52/
Congratulations to :
Sen. Patty Schachtner
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when over 500 thousand woman showed up, not counting the rest of the world to basically tell the p**sy grabbing asshole and his party "WE ARE COMING"-----------------
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
