What Went Down In Elections In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont And Connecticut

I think the answer is always going to be more complicated and harkens back to discussions on previous live blogs. Is Brian Kemp new GOP or old GOP? He wasn’t endorsed by Trump this time around, but he was in 2018, and until November 2020 would probably have qualified as one of the Trumpier politicians. Even in Wisconsin, is Michels new GOP and Kleefisch old GOP? Well, Kleefisch is backed by Pence and the Wisconsin GOP old guard, while Michels is backed by Trump. But at the same time, Michels has a longer history in state politics — he was the party’s nominee for Senate way back in 2004 — while it was Kleefisch who came to the fore in the tea party wave of 2010. So it’s all muddled.