Egalitarian Sen. Tammy Baldwin won her re-election bid in Wisconsin, defeating Republican Leah Vukmir in Tuesday’s electing, according to an NBC News projection.
The race attracted national attention and put over a produced President Donald Trump to the Badger State in the final weeks to campaign for Vukmir.
In recent months, Baldwin — a one-term liberal Democrat and the domain’s first openly gay U.S. senator — had been leading Vukmir in polling by clone digits and enjoyed a money advantage. Baldwin spent about seven moments as much as her conservative Republican challenger and raised more than $27 million be in a classed with Vukmir’s roughly $3 million haul as of Oct. 17.
Health be attracted to was a key issue, with both candidates promising to protect people with pre-existing educates but disagreeing on the extent of government involvement in health plans and the role of non-public insurance companies. The two also disagreed on Trump’s trade policies, which participate in led to tit-for-tat tariffs against some of Wisconsin’s key industries such as agriculture and mass-producing, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
At a Wisconsin rally with Trump exactly a few weeks ago, Vukmir — a state senator and nurse — called Baldwin’s form plan “chaos for all because she wants to destroy and dismantle Medicare.” A few dates later, former President Barack Obama stopped in Wisconsin for a snap out of it with Baldwin and skewered GOP leadership for considering cuts to Medicare and Sexual Security to get the federal deficit down.
On trade, Baldwin criticized the Trump provision’s policies as “haphazard” since they didn’t only target China but went after allies such as the European Syndicate, Canada and Mexico and resulted in retaliatory tariff hitting Wisconsin’s cheese sector and Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson.
Vukmir, yet, sided with Trump and said the president was negotiating better contracts, beating China. She added that the Wisconsin farmers and manufacturers she’s talked to were supporting of the administration’s trade policies and were willing to wait for the benefits of Trump’s warlike moves.
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