Scott Bauer

Politics. Wisconsin. Music. Not always in that order. Associated Press Statehouse correspondent based in Madison.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Tiffany's statement he released in January 2021 explaining his opposition to certifying Wisconsin's election results did not mention the Zuckerberg money:

https://t.co/eQhY3SDBPV

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Republican @TomTiffanyWI, who supported President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 loss in the battleground state of Wisconsin, said Wednesday he did it because of concerns with election funding from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

https://t.co/HCVl7xrpPb

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Tiffany repeated his concerns, first voiced in 2021, about clerks in Milwaukee and Dane counties advising voters they could claim to be “indefinitely confined” due to the COVID-19 pandemic and receive absentee ballots without showing a photo ID.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Tiffany's Democratic challenger @DavidCCrowley wasn't buying it.

"He didn’t say anything nefarious was going on with our elections,” Crowley said. “He didn’t say anything happened throughout the process. He just didn’t like the fact of how money was being spent.”

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

.@SenSanders will be campaigning with Democrat @RebeccaforWI in Eau Claire on Sunday.

Cooke is trying to knock off Republican @derrickvanorden

Van Orden has had a steady stream of visits from high-ranking Trump administration officials this cycle, but not from Trump himself

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

55,659 people voted in-person in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the first day it was available for the Nov. 3 election.

That is up from the 33,644 people who voted in-person absentee on the first day it was offered in 2022.

That is a 65% increase.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

The one and only debate in Wisconsin's governor's race between Democrat @DavidCCrowley and Republican @TomTiffanyWI is tonight at 7 p.m. CT.

This will be Tiffany's first-ever debate for statewide office. Crowley did many forums and one debate during the Democratic primary.

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

DEBATE NIGHT: Tonight at 7 p.m.

Watch live on WISN in Milwaukee, WKOW in Madison, WBAY in Green Bay, WXOW in La Crosse, WQOW in Eau Claire and WAOW in Wausau

Also streaming live on the WISN 12 News app and WISN 12 YouTube and Facebook pages

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

DEBATE NIGHT: Tonight at 7 p.m.

Watch live on WISN in Milwaukee, WKOW in Madison, WBAY in Green Bay, WXOW in La Crosse, WQOW in Eau Claire and WAOW in Wausau

Also streaming live on the WISN 12 News app and WISN 12 YouTube and Facebook pages

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Wisconsin Republican candidate for governor @TomTiffanyWI will start a 55-stop bus tour of the state on Saturday running through Nov. 3, the day before the election.

Tiffany will be joined by @RonJohnsonWI, @ScottWalker, Tommy Thompson and others along the way

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Cooke says:

“I’d like to end the war in Iran, which no one voted for."

The money being spent on the war should instead be spent in the U.S.

But Van Orden says diplomacy and sanctions didn't work in Iran.

“They only respond to this horrible thing that is war," he said.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

.@derrickvanorden said in a debate today that the Iran war, which he supports, is “making it exponentially harder for Republicans to keep the House and Senate.”

Van Orden is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 26 years on active duty before being elected to Congress in 2022.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

“I know about war,” Van Orden said.

He says his Democratic challenger @RebeccaforWI is unwilling to ever go to war, even when it's necessary.

Cooke, a part-time waitress and former small business owner, says she believes in diplomacy and economic sanctions first.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

.@DavidCCrowley tells crowd of UW-Madison students that politics is a contact sport like football.

That’s after @SenatorBaldwin compared Democrats to the World Series-bound Brewers.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

.@SenatorBaldwin speaks to a crowd of students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at an early voting rally.

@DavidCCrowley is also here

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Candidates @BryanSteil and @MBermanWI Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District debate are sitting very close to one another

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Some polling places are open in Madison, including one just a block away from the Capitol

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Today in Wisconsin:

_ In-person absentee voting begins, times and locations vary across the state

_ 1st CD debate between @BryanSteil and @MBermanWI

_ 3rd CD debate between @derrickvanorden and @RebeccaforWI

Both debates are the only ones in those hotly contested races

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

The arrests are part of a Trump effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of next month's midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

https://t.co/jzswlKN3ou

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

And here is the latest on Wisconsin's governor's race:

https://t.co/16Y7npxc0o

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

Wednesday night is the only debate in Wisconsin's hotly contested governor's race between Democrat @DavidCCrowley and Republican @TomTiffanyWI

Tomorrow, there is a debate being broadcast on radio only in the 1st CD race between Republican @BryanSteil and Democrat @MBermanWI

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: The governor's debate live statewide at 7 p.m.

Watch live on WISN in Milwaukee, WKOW in Madison, WBAY in Green Bay, WXOW in La Crosse, WQOW in Eau Claire and WAOW in Wausau

Also streaming live on the WISN 12 News app and WISN 12 YouTube and Facebook pages

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

The radio debate Tuesday between Steil and Berman is also their only scheduled debate before the election in 2 weeks.

Both that and the 3rd CD event are happening on the first day of early in-person absentee voting in Wisconsin.

More on 1st CD race:

https://t.co/f04Jo9aPdV