Senate Democrats Strive To Outrun Harris In The Rust Belt
HuffPost
Democrats like Sen. Tammy Baldwin could triumph even if the Democratic presidential candidate loses — an increasingly rare feat.
FORT ATKINSON, Wis. — Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a liberal from the most liberal part of Wisconsin, is in Jefferson County, a rural area about an hour west of Milwaukee.
The goal of her Saturday afternoon sojourn to a Democratic canvass kickoff is not to win this pro-Trump part of the state — she could not even do that in 2018, when she romped to a 10-point statewide victory after the GOP essentially gave up on the contest — but to simply lose it by less.
Making rural counties like this one turn light pink on election night instead of dark red is how Baldwin hopes to do something increasingly difficult in American politics: win her state’s Senate race, even if her party’s presidential nominee loses there. Of course, Baldwin would prefer if she and Vice President Kamala Harris both win on Nov. 5, but she is one of a handful of Democrats in a position to outrun the top of the ticket by potentially decisive margins.
“There are a lot of rural voters who may consider splitting their ticket,” Baldwin said in an interview with HuffPost. “They have Trump bumper stickers on their pick-ups and are voting for me.”
Baldwin’s campaign is not overly confident — she noted both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won the state by less than a percentage point, and Republicans are ramping up their spending in the state – but the potential that Wisconsin will choose a Republican president and Democratic senator is part of a clear pattern.
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