Wisconsin Democrats have recruited a candidate for each of the state’s Senate races for the first time in two decades.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee announced Tuesday that a Democrat will be on the ballot in every state Senate seat in 2024. For the first time since 2011, 97 of 99 Wisconsin State Assembly seats will also have a Democrat on the ballot.
“For more than a decade, legislative Republicans have been insulated from accountability because of hand-drawn maps that preserved only their interests and protected their manufactured majorities in both chambers of the state legislature,” Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Wisconsinites are reinvigorated with fair maps finally in play, and voters are excit …