Wisconsin got lots of attention as a so-called “battleground state” during the 2022 campaign season.
Presidents Biden, Trump, and Obama all paid visits to the Badger State to help candidates for governor or U.S. Senate, but none of them got to La Crosse County this year. However, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who could become speaker in the new session, met with farmers at Brice Prairie in June while campaigning with eventual Congressman-elect Derrick Van Orden, who won the 3rd District House seat in November.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and candidate Derrick Van Orden visit a Brice Prairie dairy farm in June of 2022
“These Democratic policies that have increased the price of fuel from a diesel and others…the inflation with their runaway spending for the feed and others make it very difficult for the American farmer to survive, especially here in Wisconsin,” McCarthy told local reporters during a farm visit.
Sanders downplayed widespread claims of voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Bernie Sanders speaks at UW-L rally on Nov. 4th, 2022
“When you’re an adult, you don’t go around saying in a democracy, that the only reason I lost was fraud. No, the other guy got more votes than I did. That happens,” said Sanders.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party was holding its convention at the La Crosse Center the same week that the Supreme Court reversed the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion. Democratic Governor Tony Evers spoke about the ruling during the convention.
“I have seven grandkids that are girls or young women,” Evers said on June 25th, the day after the court ruling. “Yesterday, they were made second-class citizens. That’s bull—-.”
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US Sen. Ron Johnson speaks at a campaign rally outside the La Crosse County Republican Party headquarters in Onalaska on Nov. 1, 2022. (PHOTO: Brad Williams)
