{"id":125658,"date":"2024-11-14T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125658"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:42:47","slug":"wisconsin-republican-acknowledges-defeat-in-senate-race-but-questions-result-and-mulls-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125658","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republican acknowledges defeat in Senate race, but questions result and mulls recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbafu000l2cnu4qve8t3a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/06\/politics\/tammy-baldwin-wisconsin-senate\/index.html\">he lost the election<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricHovde\/status\/1856444700707958981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also raised questions<\/a> about the legitimacy of the result as he mulls requesting a recount.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq700093b6m8fcmvk4l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Even as they celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">President-elect Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s victory, right-wing figures such as tech billionaire Elon Musk, as well as some prominent 2020 election deniers, have seized on Hovde\u2019s refusal to concede. They have embraced his baseless claims on social media that there were statistically \u201cimprobable\u201d results and \u201cinconsistencies\u201d with the vote count.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq7000a3b6mm69gyxau@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN projected last week that Baldwin would win a third term, and the latest unofficial results show Hovde losing by less than a percentage point. He fell short even while Trump narrowly carried the state: Baldwin and Vice President Kamala Harris finished with very similar vote totals, but Hovde lagged behind Trump by about 56,000 votes.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq7000b3b6mcqgus7wf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Despite delegitimizing the result and saying he was giving \u201ccareful consideration\u201d to a recount, Hovde also did something Trump did not do in 2020: acknowledge that he lost.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq7000c3b6mesh1pmbp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI\u2019ve been blessed with a lot of energy and very thick skin, and I\u2019m a very resilient person,\u201d Hovde <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Emilee_Fannon\/status\/1856496672118820998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Tuesday<\/a> on a conservative talk radio show. \u201cI will definitely pick myself up and move on and continue fight for our wonderful country and state, which is why I got into this whole thing. It\u2019s the most painful loss I\u2019ve ever experienced.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq7000d3b6me4525kev@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Election officials swiftly rebutted Hovde\u2019s theories about supposed irregularities. Voting experts such as David Becker, who runs the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation &amp; Research, said there\u2019s \u201cnothing inappropriate\u201d about waiting to concede until the result is final, but any potential postelection lawsuits would need to be backed up by facts.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbrq7000e3b6md2v2ycp7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf (Hovde) intends to pursue a legal challenge, they will need more than speculation and conspiracy theories spread on social media,\u201d Becker said. \u201cThey will need to bring evidence to court that will stand up to scrutiny, sufficient to overcome their deficit.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghbbnr00003b6mdugqogrd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricHovde\/status\/1856444700707958981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-minute video<\/a> posted to X, the Musk-owned platform formerly called Twitter, Hovde promoted several unfounded claims to question the legitimacy of Baldwin\u2019s win.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000m3b6m1cpuszln@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The wealthy businessman and CEO of Sunwest Bank said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by the late-night ballot reporting from Milwaukee, which erased his lead and cemented Baldwin\u2019s victory. He said, \u201cstatistically, this outcome seems improbable,\u201d because he said Baldwin won an inexplicably high share of the new votes.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000n3b6mob0b31l1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But others didn\u2019t share Hovde\u2019s surprise, including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joeminocqua\/status\/1856073806533849451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative pundits<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ajbayatpour\/status\/1856457700563137001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted<\/a> Baldwin\u2019s strong showing in real time. That batch of roughly 109,000 new votes came from the city of Milwaukee, which is a Democratic stronghold. Further, the ballots in that batch were mail-in and early votes, which disproportionately favor Democrats. The Milwaukee Election Commission had also been clear that late-night results were normal.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000o3b6ma75609my@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt is both expected and routine that absentee ballots \u2013 over 100,000 in this case \u2013 are counted and reported in the late hours of Election Night,\u201d the commission said Tuesday in a statement, which also explained that state law doesn\u2019t allow the pre-processing of mail ballots, leading to the \u201creporting of large numbers of absentee ballots late at night.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000p3b6m3dsgfxxi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the video, Hovde also claimed there were \u201cvoting inconsistencies\u201d in Milwaukee because some precincts saw \u201cturnout of over 150% of registered voters,\u201d or higher.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000q3b6mkdbwqcc9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that more people voted than were eligible. These seemingly bizarre numbers can be attributed to same-day voter registration, which is allowed in Wisconsin.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000r3b6mg07ui8wk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Milwaukee Election Commission said that \u201cmany newly registered voters exercised their right to support their preferred candidates\u201d by registering to vote on Election Day and that it was \u201cfully confident that Mr. Hovde\u2019s accusations lack any merit.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000s3b6mikqux0wu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Baldwin responded to Hovde\u2019s video by calling on her rival to accept the election result.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc51a000t3b6mgpvgu4n6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOn Election Day, I called on all Republicans and Democrats to accept the results of a free and fair election and process, and that\u2019s what I did,\u201d Baldwin told CNN on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cI recognized my victory and Donald Trump\u2019s in the state of Wisconsin, and he needs to do the same.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm3ghc7x3000v3b6mt13e7p4r@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"role-of-third-party-candidates\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        Role of third-party candidates<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghc051000k3b6m3tf27gpz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hovde further accused Democrats of trying to \u201cdeceive voters\u201d and \u201csiphon votes from me\u201d by propping up an independent pro-Trump candidate and a Libertarian candidate.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00103b6mm6pg2j8k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            While Hovde currently trails Baldwin by just over 27,000 votes, Libertarian nominee Phil Anderson got about 42,000 votes and Thomas Leager from the upstart America First Party received about 28,000 votes. News reports indicate that Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/04\/us-news\/libertarian-senate-candidate-says-cheesy-misleading-mailer-a-rotten-democratic-trick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent mailers<\/a> promoting Anderson and that Leager\u2019s campaign has ties to Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-senate-election-democrats-far-right-4e473639f23c257096684d83146d6e1f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/patriots-run-project-congress-candidates-trump-democrats-republicans-election-d29b438f46589bd7ecced80ac64e93a4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consultants<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00113b6mubuw0x26@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cObviously, the claims about the unfair third-party candidates \u2013 that\u2019s perfectly legal, and will have no effect on a recount or election contest,\u201d said Ben Ginsberg, a veteran GOP election law attorney and CNN contributor. \u201cHe has every right to bring a recount under Wisconsin law. But it\u2019s not a margin that historically gets turned around by a recount.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00123b6mce9uh7qq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hovde said in his video that he is still reviewing \u201call options,\u201d including requesting a recount, and plans to announce a decision once the result is finalized. Counties must submit their final vote counts to the state by November 19, and the deadline for statewide certification is December 1.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00133b6m3c1g4tnb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            His video was promoted by Musk, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1856506310444941571?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the result \u201csure does\u201d look improbable, Kari Lake, the Republican whom CNN projects to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/11\/politics\/ruben-gallego-arizona-senate-race-kari-lake\/index.html\">lose<\/a> this year\u2019s Senate race in Arizona and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/22\/politics\/kari-lake-lawsuit-maricopa-county\/index.html\">falsely claimed<\/a> there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/31\/politics\/fact-check-kari-lake-140k-fraudulent-ballots\/index.html\">mass fraud<\/a> in her losing 2022 race for governor, and conservative lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/18\/politics\/cleta-mitchell-election-assistance-commission-advisor\/index.html\">Cleta Mitchell<\/a>, who was on Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/05\/politics\/cleta-mitchell-resigns-trump-georgia\/index.html\">infamous call<\/a> with Georgia officials in which he tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/03\/politics\/donald-trump-brad-raffensperger-call-washington-post\/index.html\">overturn<\/a> the 2020 result.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00143b6mggii3s3d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Under Wisconsin law, Hovde would pay for a recount. The Trump campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/16\/politics\/wisconsin-recount-estimated-cost\/index.html\">paid<\/a> for a partial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/29\/politics\/biden-dane-county-wisconsin-recount\/index.html\">recount<\/a> of the 2020 election in Wisconsin, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/30\/politics\/joe-biden-wisconsin-victory-finalized\/index.html\">lost<\/a> by about 20,000 votes to Biden. There was also a statewide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/26\/politics\/clinton-campaign-recount\/index.html\">recount<\/a> in 2016 initiated by the Green Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/25\/politics\/green-party-recount-wisconsin\/index.html\">candidate<\/a>, when Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/12\/politics\/pennsylvania-recount-blocked-jill-stein\/index.html\">won<\/a> by nearly 23,000 votes,\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghck9f00153b6m2dlm8tfq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cHe\u2019s raising some initial questions \u2026 and there are things he says that look strange. But in most cases, these are just things you don\u2019t like because you lost,\u201d Ginsberg said. \u201cMargins of 30,000 don\u2019t get turned around in recounts. But it\u2019s not crazy to ask for one.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3ghcj05000y3b6mjrajfnbv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Ali Main, Casey Tolan, Matt Holt, Manu Raju, Haley Talbot and Ethan Cohen contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/13\/politics\/wisconsin-senate-election-result-eric-hovde\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. 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