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Republican Gov. Scott Walker in neck-and-neck race with Democrat Tony Evers. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC…

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is one of ten Democratic senators up for re-election in a state won by Trump. Sen. Baldwin joins Morning Joe to discuss her GOP challenger, health care reform, Scott Walker and attacks from superPACs. » Subscribe…

President Trump claimed that despite 8 years of trying to repeal Obamacare, the GOP will protect pre-existing conditions while the Democrats won't. Republicans are shifting their rhetoric on health care as polls show the health care law's popularity rising. Jared…

Watch LIVE at 7:30pm Eastern: Trump will speak at a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin. The president will be campaigning hours after several of his significant political rivals were seemingly targeted with explosive packages sent by mail, including former President…

Hundreds of tips but no suspects in the search for 13-year-old Jayme Closs; Matt Finn reports from outside the Closs house in Barron, Wisconsin. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

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LeaderEthics-Wisconsin is committed to ensuring political leaders at the statewide and national levels are handling issues in an ethical way, Wisconsin Public Radio reported . The organization recently held an event where former state lawmakers discussed their experiences with ethics in politics. The group began earlier this year in La Crosse and hopes to start local chapters across the state. People would pay $25 annually to be a member. They would receive a monthly newsletter with examples of good and bad ethical leadership in politics. Sign up for breaking news alerts: Apps: iOS * Android "One of the things we can do is to encourage next generation candidates who develop a playbook as an ethical leader," said Lee Rasch, the organization's founder and executive director. "If we can do that from the beginning, perhaps in 10 years or beyond we can see a difference." "The grades are not based on their political views, or whether they're left-leaning or right-leaning, or voting on any given policy," Rasch said. "They're basically addressing whether or not they're truthful, whether they're transparent with public information, whether they're a unifier rather than a divider and whether they work hard to represent their entire constituency rather than the simple majority that may have voted for them." Rasch said he's meeting with people in the Madison area in October with the hope of starting a second chapter.

He said as much Thursday at an event in the Capitol and has made similar comments before. At a Q&A with Jeff Mayers of Wisconsin political news site WisPolitics, Ryan said: Twenty-first-century technology has proven that tribalism and identity politics is effective. Internet, money has proven identity politics and tribalism works. It’s morally wrong, but it’s politically effective. What bothers me is it’s being practiced on both sides: the right and the left. It’s not that surprising that Ryan criticized identity politics. For years — particularly those tea party years when Ryan began to climb the leadership ranks, Republicans criticized the concept of identity politics as a weapon that liberals use to stoke division. I think identity politics is neutral. According to Dictionary.com, identity politics is “political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.” Obviously, we can see how something like identity politics can be abused, and perhaps that is what Ryan is referring to, but just because something can be abused and manipulated does not make it inherently wrong. The reality is that throughout American history, groups have had interests and even priorities based on their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, class or another identifier that, at best, was not a significant concern for people outside of their group.

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. That’s because if she wins, and other seats hold, control of the state legislature flips to the Democrats. Besides Colorado, there are a half-dozen states where Democrats are a few seats away from winning control of the state senate: • One seat away in New York, Maine and Minnesota. “For state legislatures, it’s the number one race in the country,” Ms. Winter told me in a phone interview this week. There has been lots of talk about the “blue wave” that could break over Congress, turning over control of the House to Democrats. Former President Barack Obama has made it a central political priority of his post-presidential years. A former city councilwoman, this is her fifth political race. Slavery is on the ballot in Colorado. Image On Politics will occasionally check in with The Times’s national correspondents, who live across the country and hear about local issues that might not otherwise rise to our attention. Amendment A, a question on the state ballot, asks voters if they’d like remove similar language in the Colorado Constitution and replace it with the following: “There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude.” The amendment’s architect is Jumoke Emery, 31, an organizer I’ve known since 2016, when I interviewed him at a vigil for minority men and women killed by police.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel responds to Democrats focusing on primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota in their midterm push. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…