{"id":15717,"date":"2025-03-11T22:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15717"},"modified":"2025-03-12T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:07:26","slug":"cooke-announces-another-3rd-congressional-bid-against-rep-derrick-van-orden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15717","title":{"rendered":"Cooke Announces Another 3rd Congressional Bid Against Rep. Derrick Van Orden"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/cooke-announces-another-3rd-congressional-bid-against-van-orden\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Democrat Rebecca Cooke announce Tuesday she intends to run against U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Third Congressional, in 2026.<\/p>\n

Van Orden defeated Cooke<\/a> with 51.4% of the vote in the western Wisconsin district by a nearly 11,200 vote margin. The district includes La Crosse and Eau Claire.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast November, we won the trust of voters across the party spectrum and nearly sent a farm kid to Washington,\u201d Cooke said while announcing she would run. \u201cWe need more working class voices like ours who will fight like hell to build back the middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Orden was a Navy SEAL and senior chief petty officer during his 26 years of service and recently received the 2025 Congressional award<\/a> from the Veterans of Foreign Wars for his advocacy for veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo-time loser Rebecca Cooke is making a third attempt at running for Congress after losing to Derrick Van Orden. 2026 will be no different \u2014 Western Wisconsin voters will reject two-faced Cooke\u2019s radical far-left views,\u201d Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The National Republican Congressional Committee noted several stories about Cooke showing that she did political work before she ran for Congress, saying she claims to be a political outsider but is not.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertified loser Rebecca Cooke was already rejected by Wisconsinites twice and will lose again in 2026,\u201d NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon. \u201cVoters are well aware that she is nothing more than a sleazy political activist who remains out-of-touch with Western Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/cooke-announces-another-3rd-congressional-bid-against-van-orden\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Democrat Rebecca Cooke announce Tuesday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}