Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost the election but also raised questions about the legitimacy of the result as he mulls requesting a recount.
A chart shows votes for Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin increasing when Milwaukee reported its absentee ballot results -- as officials expected.
Wisconsin Republican Eric Hovde is admitting that he lost the U.S. Senate race to Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin, but refusing to concede and instead is repeating misleading claims about the election while he considers a recount.
According to exit polls, Wisconsin didn't actually have that many voters who split their tickets between Trump and Baldwin. Polls suggest 4% of Trump voters in Wisconsin voted for Baldwin, while 3% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris voted for Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde.
Eric Hovde, who lost his Senate campaign, is the first prominent candidate to suggest his race was rigged. We fact-checked his case.
Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde released a video Tuesday questioning the Wisconsin election results that show he lost to incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) last week. “Many people have been wondering why I have remained quiet since election night.
Exit polls and numbers show he may be right on that, but then he went too far, claiming, based on what he’d seen on television, that "every single county in America, every single county, Kamala Harris did worse than Joe Biden did."
Unofficial results show about 73% of Wisconsin’s voting-age population cast ballots in the 2024 presidential race, with the raw number of voters topping out at the highest in state history.
County-by-county voting shifts in Wisconsin this year were smaller than in any presidential race going back at least 60 years.
Wisconsin was a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 10 electoral votes at stake.
Republican businessman Eric Hovde has yet to concede the Wisconsin Senate race to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). He has not made a public statement since the day after the election last week, nor has he requested a recount in the race. Baldwin won the race by 29,166 votes, beating Hovde 49.4% to 48.5%.