Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. MADISON, Wis. — A third Democratic candidate has announced that she’s running for a western Wisconsin congressional seat held by freshman Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden in one of the presidential battleground state’s swing districts. Former La Crosse County Board Chair Tara Johnson on Wednesday joined former small-business owner Rebecca …
MADISON, Wis. — Democrat Rebecca Cooke, a former small business owner and past member of the state’s economic development board, announced her run for Congress on Monday in a battleground western Wisconsin district Republicans flipped last time. “It’s clear that Washington isn’t working for us, and Derrick Van Orden is part of the problem.” Cooke finished second in the 2022 …