Thursday, October 22: Crowley and Tiffany meet, judge blocks Homeland Security voter sweep, advocates focus on healthcare in election, Supreme Court allows gender-affirming care in prison, Trump plans campaign blitz
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“He wants to do exactly what they did in Washington D.C. They literally gave $80 billion in tax breaks to billionaires throughout the entire country on the backs of hardworking Wisconsinites who are losing their healthcare — 270,000 folks. Look, we cannot afford Congressman Tiffany as the next governor if we're literally going to be balancing tax breaks for billionaires on the backs of hardworking Wisconsin family members.”
– David Crowley, Democratic candidate for governor, on Tom Tiffany.
“So while my opponent, you can see early on in the debate, is consistently focused on being against Donald Trump, I'm for Wisconsin. And rather than creating a bunch more programs that are going to end up taxing the people of Wisconsin more, I want to put more money in the taxpayers' pockets.”
– Tom Tiffany, Republican candidate for governor, on David Crowley.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany met Wednesday evening in Milwaukee for the only debate in Wisconsin's race for governor. (Screenshot from WISN)
In their only debate in the Wisconsin race for governor, Democrat David Crowley worked Wednesday night to paint Republican Tom Tiffany as a yes-man for his billionaire donors and President Donald Trump while Tiffany worked to cast Crowley as an extreme liberal focused only on raising taxes and distracted by his dislike of Trump. Henry Redman reports on the encounter.
After voting rights advocates alleged that Homeland Security was sending armed agents to homes to question residents about their voter status, a federal judge barred the agency from those operations in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin until polls close on Election Day. Jonathan Shorman of our Washington bureau team has the story.
Healthcare and small business advocates crossed Wisconsin Wednesday to call on the federal government to reverse policies they said were thwarting healthcare access and support Democrats running for Congress and other offices in the Nov. 3 election. Erik Gunn reports from the stop they made in Madison.
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Voters line up outside Shiloh Hills Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, on primary Election Day, May 19, 2026. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)
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