{"id":14025,"date":"2024-11-18T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2024-11-18T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:57:24","slug":"wisconsin-gops-eric-hovde-concedes-senate-race-to-tammy-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14025","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP\u2019s Eric Hovde Concedes Senate Race to Tammy Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-gops-eric-hovde-concedes-senate-race-to-tammy-baldwin\/jtnews\/2024\/11\/18\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Natalia Mittelstadt<\/h5>\n

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Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde conceded his race to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday, saying he did not want to \u201cadd to political strife through a contentious recount.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hovde was down about about 29,000 votes from Baldwin, putting the margin at less than a percentage point,\u00a0The Associated Press reported<\/a>. The vote margin allowed him to request a recount that he would have had to pay for himself. Baldwin declared victory in the Senate race two days after Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results from election night were disappointing, particularly in light of the last-minute absentee ballots that were dropped in Milwaukee at 4 a.m., flipping the outcome. There are many troubling issues around these absentee ballots and their timing,\u201d\u00a0Hovde said<\/a>\u00a0in a video posted on X, referencing a statement he gave last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a detailed review of all the ballots and their legitimacy, which will be difficult to obtain in the courts, a request for a recount would serve no purpose because you will just be recounting the same ballots regardless of their integrity,\u201d Hovde added. \u201cAs a result, and my desire to not add to political strife through a contentious recount, I\u2019ve decided to concede the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week,\u00a0Hovde posted<\/a>\u00a0a video on X about overnight ballot dumps after Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked by what unfolded on Election Night,\u201d he said. \u201cAt 1 a.m., I was receiving calls of congratulations and, based on the models, it appeared I would win the Senate race. Then, at 4 a.m., Milwaukee reported approximately 108,000 absentee ballots with Senator Baldwin receiving nearly 90 percent of those ballots. Statistically, this outcome seems improbable, as it didn\u2019t match the patterns from same-day voting in Milwaukee, where I had received 22 percent of the votes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince last Wednesday, numerous parties reached out to me about voting inconsistencies such as certain precincts in Milwaukee having turnout of 150 percent of registered voters, and in some cases, over 200 percent,\u201d Hovde explained, later adding that \u201cthis was accomplished by same-day voter registration that surged by almost 50 percent on a rainy day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Natalia Mittelstadt is a reporter for Just the News.
\nPhoto \u201cTammy Baldwin\u201d by Tammy Baldwin<\/a>. Photo \u201cEric Hovde\u201d by Eric Hovde.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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