“The top Senate GOP super PAC is pouring $6.6 million into Wisconsin’s Senate race, clear proof that Republicans are trying to expand their once-narrow campaign map less than a month before Election Day,” Semafor reports.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) “has been circulating false claims about Hurricane Helene that federal officials are urging people to stop spreading,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

“There is growing Democratic fear over how quickly the Wisconsin Senate race is tightening, with party insiders worried they could shockingly lose the critical contest,” Axios reports.

“Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) lead in both public and internal polls has deteriorated, and Republicans are flooding the state with cash to pull off the upset.”

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) “has quietly replaced key parts of his campaign in recent months as he continues to trail Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in the polls,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

“Over the last three months, the multimillionaire banking mogul has parted ways with his fundraising and media consultants and the top member of his communications team.”

“Sen. Tammy Baldwin had an unusual talent during her last election: convincing rural supporters of Republican Donald Trump that they should vote for her, too,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“This November, Senate Democrats need Baldwin to do it again.”

“Wisconsin is a prime battleground to determine the next president, but Democrats also need a win in the Badger State to keep control of the Senate. Baldwin’s campaign for a third term against the wealthy banker Eric Hovde, who says the Democrat is an out-of-touch career politician, has sent her down country roads in sparsely populated counties that cut through farmland and curve around lakes.”

Eric Hovde (R), who is running for Senate in Wisconsin, said he is familiar with Black culture because he has spent “a lot of time” in Africa and because he runs “homeless shelters for abandoned kids,” the Washington Post reports.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) detailed how his trip to the Amazon rainforest cured his multiple sclerosis, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Hovde said he contracted two parasites which cured his symptoms.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R), who has the backing of Donald Trump ahead of his August GOP primary, has used the term “shysters” on numerous occasions and promoted the Great Reset conspiracy theory, Haaretz reports.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) “has repeatedly accused young people of poor work ethic, drug use and crime, recordings from Hovde’s former speaking engagements show,” the Daily Cardinal reports.

In one talk, he labeled college students who protested as “so stupid” and said students cannot respectfully debate on college campuses anymore.

In another he said: “There’s something going on with our younger people not entering into the labor force, but they have in the past. I fear part of it could be the big chronic drug problem that our country has had with opiates. I think part of it is kids haven’t been taught the same work ethic that the Baby Boom generation has.”

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) missed a line in the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent appearance, skipping “one nation, under God” and going right to “indivisible,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

New York Times: “Eric Hovde, the Republican banking executive challenging Senator Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, may be developing a problem with older voters. The bank he leads, Utah-based Sunwest, last month was named as a co-defendant in a California lawsuit that accuses a senior living facility partly owned by the bank of elder abuse, negligence and wrongful death.”

“Mr. Hovde’s campaign called the suit meritless and said it was farcical to hold the chairman and chief executive of a bank responsible for the actions of a business that it seized in a foreclosure in 2021. Whatever its merits, the suit might have been largely irrelevant to Mr. Hovde’s political campaign had he himself not boasted recently of having gained expertise in the nursing home industry as a lender to such residences.”

After a bizarre statement last week, Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) had to put out a video explaining that he does believe the elderly should be able to vote.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) floated the idea that people in nursing homes should not be allowed to vote because they’re simply too close to death.

Said Hovde: “Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have a five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote. And you had children, adult children showing up saying, ‘Who voted for my 85 or 90-year-old father or mother?’”

“Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), whose ‘go everywhere’ 2018 campaign strategy became a model for how to win in battleground Wisconsin, knows her road to victory this year against a multimillionaire Republican supporter of former President Donald Trump goes through places like New Glarus,” the AP reports.

“The bucolic village of 2,200, founded by Swiss immigrants and famous for its Spotted Cow craft beer, is a world away from the urban Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison, where Democrats like Baldwin and President Joe Biden rack up massive margins of victory.”

“Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde invested tens of millions of dollars in insurance companies that operated in the U.S. but were based in Bermuda, and therefore benefited from not having to pay U.S. corporate taxes,” Politico reports.

Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) said in 2017 that, if it were up to him, alcohol would only be available to people who brew or distill it themselves, Rolling Stone reports.

Acknowledging that it would be difficult to wind back the commercialization of alcohol, Hovde went on to say: “The horse is out of the barn, and it’s going to be hard to put back.”