Conservative Leah Vukmir Looks To Defeat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in Wisconsin
By Avner Zarmi October 16, 2018
One of the senatorial races in this midterm election that has not been highlighted much is the Wisconsin contest between Republican state Senator Leah Vukmir and first-term Democrat Tammy Baldwin. Vukmir, the daughter of Greek immigrants and a pediatric nurse practitioner by training, first became interested in politics when she noticed that her daughter was struggling with the reading program in the local public school she attended. When Vukmir challenged her teacher to produce the research to back up the failing curriculum being used, it led to a long period in which she attended all the school board meetings, wrote numerous letters to the editor, and generally made herself a gadfly on issues of public education.
When Scott Walker, then the state assemblyman in Vukmir’s district, decided to run for Milwaukee County executive in the wake of a massive financial scandal that saw several county supervisors recalled and the previous executive resign, Vukmir was encouraged to run in his place. After four terms in the state assembly, where she was one of the most conservative members, she ran for the state senate in 2010 -- the year that Walker was elected governor. She was thus part of the “Walker revolution,†which began with the state facing an unconstitutional $3.6B deficit and an unemployment rate of 9.3%.
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Despite the fact that Wisconsin has been a solidly Republican state ever since (Walker has been reelected twice in regular elections and once in an historic recall election), Wisconsin’s electorate remains almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. This is reflected in the generally respected Marquette University Law School poll, taken monthly. The most recent poll (just released in October) shows Walker ahead of his Democratic opponent 46% to 45%. Anomalously, though, it shows Baldwin leading Vukmir by 10 points, 53% to 43%.
Read more at: https://pjmedia.com/election/conservative-leah-vukmir-looks-to-defeat-sen-tammy-baldwin-d-in-wisconsin/
Vukmir is a big Trump supporter and it sounds like he will go to Wisconsin to campaign for her. The next paragraph from the above says the poll has been all over the place.
