Doyle: “Things are so dysfunctional at the national level, I don’t know how it’s going to be fixed.”

While campaigning, the Onalaska Dem.
hears nonstop talk about presidential race

Every door he knocks on, they want to talk about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  

Onalaska Democrat Steve Doyle is out campaigning ahead of the election in November – running for another term in the state assembly.  

People want to talk about roads and schools, too, he said, but there’s an awful lot of talk about the wild presidential race.

“It’s a combination of distracting and, for some people, it’s almost entertaining because you can’t make this stuff up,” Doyle said. “Things are so dysfunctional at the national level that I don’t know how it’s going to be fixed.”

Despite all the attention, Doyle doesn’t believe the presidential race will have a big impact on his assembly race. He believes voters understand that local lawmakers are a little more normal than the circus of national politics.

Doyle faces off against republican Julian Bradley in November in what is seen as one of the only closely contested assembly races in Wisconsin this fall.  

Doyle thinks he’ll still attract crossover votes from Republicans – something necessary for him to win in the generally GOP-leaning district.

“And I hear that all the time,” Doyle said of crossover votes. “I stop at places and people tell me, ‘I vote almost straight Republican, but I vote for you.’

“They like my bipartisan message. They like the fact that I don’t just talk about it, I do it and I can prove results.”