{"id":2811,"date":"2024-08-14T06:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:24:03","slug":"republican-erik-olsen-to-face-off-towards-democrat-in-deep-blue-wisconsin-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/republican-erik-olsen-to-face-off-towards-democrat-in-deep-blue-wisconsin-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Erik Olsen to face off towards Democrat in deep blue Wisconsin district"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican Erik Olsen defeated his main opponent Tuesday night time in Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, organising a battle to unseat Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan within the deep-blue district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2nd District spans the capital metropolis of Madison \u2013 essentially the most politically liberal metropolis within the state \u2013 and Dane County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Madison lawyer Erik Olsen defeated Charity Barry, a floor crew supervisor, in a main that was a rematch of the pair’s race in 2022. Olsen beat Barry in that first race by simply 63 votes, in accordance with a report in Wisconsin Public Radio.<\/p>\n

Olsen will problem Rep. Pocan for the seat he is held since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s been a very quiet contest in a district that is not likely to elect a Republican anytime soon,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden instructed Wisconsin Public Radio. “But this is at least an opportunity for the party to pick a favorite and try to make a stab at winning a difficult seat.”<\/p>\n

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[ad_1] Republican Erik Olsen defeated his main opponent Tuesday night time in Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, organising a battle to unseat Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan within the deep-blue district.\u00a0 The 2nd District spans the capital metropolis of Madison \u2013 essentially the most politically liberal metropolis within the state \u2013 and Dane County.\u00a0 Madison lawyer Erik […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}