Tom Tiffany's love affair with Donald Trump (chapter 2)

 

Headline:  UpNorth News, 10/19/2026

Kristine Gill reports:

Lockstep with Trump \ 

With former election denier Tom Tiffany vying for governor and a self-appointed “MAGA activist” in secretary of state candidate Jay Schroeder, top Republicans running for office in the state have shown continued support for President Donald Trump—even as the latest Marquette Poll shows the President’s approval ratings are at an all-time low of 38%. 

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In 2020, when he first won the race for US Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th District, Tiffany came out swinging for Trump and against Wisconsinites’ votes by voting against certifying the state’s 2020 election results. 

“There’s a certain symbolic importance to that being one of the first acts that Tiffany did as a member of Congress, how he’s elected in 2020 and then immediately casts a vote pertaining to the legitimacy of the 2020 election outcome,” Chergosky said. [emphasis added]

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September 2026

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July 2026

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January-June 2026

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Wisconsin 2026 elections: Democratic write-in candidate Nathan Kalmoe challenges Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein in 27th Senate District

 

The Wisconsin GOP gerrymandered 27th Senate District sprawls from south to north through 

• northern third of Green County
• eastern third of Iowa County
• squiggly portion of most of western Dane County
• slightly less than half of eastern Sauk County
• southwestern tip and northwestern corner of Columbia County

Redistricting created a district located within the northwest quadrant of Dane County and includes the west side of Madison and the communities of Verona, Middleton, and Waunakee.

Maps:  2021-2022, 2025-2026

Election results and newest map:  Ballotpedia

 

The 27th District is solidly Democratic.  Republican challengers have lost the past two elections by an average of 35 percentage points. 

Although no Republican is running, Democratic incumbent Dianne Hesselbein has a challenger who has mounted a write-in campaign.  Nathan Kalmoe, executive director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal in the School of Journalism and Communication at UW-Madison, positions himself to the left of Hesselbein on the political spectrum.  He admits his campaign is a "longshot", although Retiring Guy prefers to categorize it as something closer to quixotic.  

In the August 11th Democratic primary election, Hesselbein ran unopposed and received 44,567 votes out of 44,730 cast.  No other candidates in the primaries -- Democrat or Republican -- came anywhere close to this tally.  (Milwaukee Democrat Chris Larson came in second with 29,973.)

One of the 163 write-in votes was cast by Kalmoe.  He voted for his wife.  Perhaps Kalmoe should have done his homework prior to casting his vote in the primary. The deadline for filing nomination papers for the 2026 general election was June 1.  Kalmoe had all summer to gear up.

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Related reading:

Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018

Malia Jones explains:

Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.

Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering. 

Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party. 

Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]

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1st Assembly District.  (6/11/2026)

2nd Assembly District.  (6/14/2026)

3rd Assembly District.  (6/15/2026)

4th Assembly District.  (6/17/2026)

5th Assembly District.  (6/18/2026)

6th Assembly District.  (6/20/2026)

7th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)

8th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)

9th Assembly District.  (6/22/2026)

10th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)

11th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)

12th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)

13th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)

14th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)

15th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)

16th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)

17th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)

18th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)

19th Assembly District.  (7/1/2026)

20th Assembly District.  (7/1/2026)

21st Assembly District.  (5/8/2026)

22nd Assembly District.  (7/5/2026)

23rd Assembly District.  (7/5/2026)

24th Assembly District.  (4/19/2026)

25th Assembly District.  (7/6/2026)

26th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)

27th Assembly District.  (7/7/2026)

28th Assembly District.  (7/8/2026)

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31st Assembly District.  (7/12/2026)

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38th Assembly District.  (7/17/2026)

39th Assembly District.  (7/18/2026)

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87th Assembly District.  (9/24/2026)

88th Assembly District.  (9/25/2026)

89th Assembly District.  (9/26/2026)

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91st Assembly District.  (9/28/2026)

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96th Assembly District.  (10/3/2026)

97th Assembly District.  (10/4/2026)

98th Assembly District.  (10/5/2026)

99th Assembly District.  (10/6/2026)

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3rd Senate District.  (10/8/2026)

5th Senate District.  (10/9/2026)

7th Senate District.  (10/11/2026)

9th Senate District.  (10/12/2026)

11th Senate District.  (10/13/2026)

13th Senate District.  (10/14/2026)

15th Senate District.  (10/15/2026)

17th Senate District.  (10/16/2026)

19th Senate District.  (10/17/2026)

21st Senate District.  (10/18/2026)

23rd Senate District.  (10/19/2026)

25th Senate District.  (10/20/2026)

31st Senate District.  (4/15/2026)

Bird flu in ducks and geese reported in South Carolina

 

Photo and headline:  South Carolina Public Radio, 10/20/2026

South Carolina Public Radio staff report:

The City of North Charleston has issued a public health notice after officials say several dead geese and ducks were found in Quarterman's Pond. According to a post on North Charleston Government's Facebook page, Avian influenza, or bird flu, is suspected. 

Seasonal bird migration is underway which can cause bird flu cases to rise. City officials say while the risk to dogs is considered low, the virus can affect other animals and sometimes humans. They encourage backyard poultry owners to be extra cautious.  [emphasis added]

Other South Carolina post:

South Carolina reports its first case of bird flu at commercial operation since before 2022.  (2/25/2026)