Republican candidates for governor and U.S. senator in Wisconsin are facing uphill battles in the November election, according to a UW-Eau Claire professor whose expertise includes election processes and outcomes.
Geoff Peterson, chair of the university’s Political Science department, spoke Thursday noon to just under 100 people at the fall luncheon of the UW-EC Emeriti Association. He offered some tentative predictions for national election results this year, and called the battle for control of the U.S. Senate “a train wreck” of an election because of the “insane number of close races.”
The most likely outcome in the Senate is a 51-49 margin, he said, but he isn’t sure which party will be in the majority.
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