Post by Logan on Apr 26, 2017 2:11:03 GMT -6
MADISON – In the first three months of this year, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin got money from twice as many new donors as she did in all of 2016 — more even than she did in her first full quarter as a Senate candidate in late 2011.
She’s done it while decrying President Donald Trump and while meeting with new liberal groups that didn’t exist last fall when Democrats were dealt a bitter defeat by Trump and other Republicans.
There’s renewed energy on the left — both in Wisconsin and in national races like last Tuesday’s special congressional election in Georgia. Its impact is already being felt in policy fights in Congress over issues such as Obamacare.
But will it reach all the way to Baldwin’s re-election bid in 2018? How about GOP Gov. Scott Walker's own re-election race?
Read more: www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/22/wisconsin-state-democrats-see-new-energy-challenges/100748020/
She’s done it while decrying President Donald Trump and while meeting with new liberal groups that didn’t exist last fall when Democrats were dealt a bitter defeat by Trump and other Republicans.
There’s renewed energy on the left — both in Wisconsin and in national races like last Tuesday’s special congressional election in Georgia. Its impact is already being felt in policy fights in Congress over issues such as Obamacare.
But will it reach all the way to Baldwin’s re-election bid in 2018? How about GOP Gov. Scott Walker's own re-election race?
Read more: www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/22/wisconsin-state-democrats-see-new-energy-challenges/100748020/