US Senate: Baldwin vs. Head

MADISON (WLUK) – Both major party candidates in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race will be in Madison on election night, hoping to celebrate victory with supporters.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin will hold her election night party at The Orpheum Theater on State Street, just down the street from the State Capitol building.

Baldwin, 62, has served two terms in the U.S. Senate with a 2012 victory over former Gov. Tommy Thompson by 5.5 percentage points and a 2018 victory over former state Sen. Leah Vukmir by 10.83 percentage points.

The Madison native planned to spend Election Day campaigning from Milwaukee to Madison. On Monday, she was in Green Bay, Oshkosh, Stevens Point and Milwaukee.

“I think what voters are looking at in the final days is who’s on their side,” Baldwin said. “Who is fighting for them? I have always fought for the working people and families of this state. My opponent, Eric Hovde, is self-serving in his policies. It would enrich the wealthy and big business. I work for hard-working Wisconsinites.”

Baldwin has been a proponent of “Made in America” ​​initiatives during his time in the Senate, including efforts to help the state’s dairy industry.

When asked about the rise in grocery prices over the past few years, Baldwin echoed Vice President Kamala Harris’ position that falling prices are to blame.

“My solution would be to have a consumer champion — a cop on the beat if you will — investigate corporate price gouging,” Baldwin said. “I support a bill that would authorize the Federal Trade Commission to be the policeman on the beat.”

Baldwin’s Election Night Party at the Orpheum Theater opens to the public at 20. She is expected to address supporters when a winner is declared in the race.

FOX 11’s Ben Krumholz will cover the assembly and will have live reports throughout the night on FOX 11 News and fox11online.com.

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde holds his election night party at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison.

Addressing a crowd of supporters around 8 p.m. as polls closed in Wisconsin, he expressed optimism in his race.

Hovde was born and raised in the capital and graduated from UW-Madison. He and his wife, Sharon, have two adult daughters and three grandchildren.

An entrepreneur, Hovde founded and managed his first company in his twenties and went on to start and build many others. He then expanded his businesses, buying troubled community banks and turning them around.

Campaigning for the idea of ​​”Restoring the American Dream,” Hovde wants to bring his business background to Washington, DC

If elected, he has said he would first tackle problems with the US economy.

“We need to stop the reckless spending that has fueled inflation. We need to introduce pro-growth policies like deregulation that are hammering so many businesses and farmers. We need to get our energy sector moving a more robust way to bring down energy costs because energy costs flow into everything,” Hovde said.

It was about nine months ago that Hovde decided to run for the US Senate. He said he has probably only taken one day off since announcing his run, criss-crossing the state to meet with voters and listen to their concerns.

In addition to the economy, Hovde wants to secure the borders and says he will work to create a new immigration policy that will lead to safe communities.

Before Election Day, Hovde spent the last two days of his campaign traveling on his “Time for Change Bus Tour,” which included stops in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and Manitowoc.

“One of my big messages throughout this campaign is that we have to come together and stop putting on the blue jersey or the red jersey and put on the red, white and blue jersey as Americans because we have real problems to solve and a house divided cannot stand,” added Hovde. “So I think we must get together, lower the rhetoric and stop all this.”

FOX 11’s Emily Matesic will cover the assembly and will have live reports throughout the night on FOX 11 News and fox11online.com.