{"id":2140,"date":"2026-08-03T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:41:31","slug":"wisconsin-is-dsas-biggest-test-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Is DSA\u2019s Biggest Test Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>FRANKLIN, Wis. \u2014 The first, second and third questions for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong at her meet-and-greet Thursday night revolved around her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2134\">Israel Is Defining Michigan\u2019s Primaries. Progressives Say That\u2019s Why They\u2019re Winning.<\/a><\/p><p>Voters described a \u201creal fear\u201d she can\u2019t win a general election for governor, questioned whether she\u2019d tailor her policy platform to reach swing voters and asked for a primer on \u201cwhat we can say to others when that concern comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This standing-room-only event captured Hong\u2019s appeal \u2014 a packed, generationally diverse crowd, surrounded by dozens of hand-drawn signs for the once little-known state legislator \u2014 but it also reflected the angst of voters here. At times, it bordered on group therapy, with voters airing their concerns over Hong\u2019s ability to win the governor\u2019s race in a closely divided state that President Donald Trump won two years ago.<\/p><p>\u201cIn a super, super purple state, I\u2019m worried she\u2019s not going to catch the people on the fence,\u201d said Faith Casselman, a 32-year-old medical education coordinator who attended the event.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP26199842871765\" class=\"wp-image-2118\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b3b1c91b3b6c7d49476852f0f7cfd651-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b3b1c91b3b6c7d49476852f0f7cfd651-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b3b1c91b3b6c7d49476852f0f7cfd651-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b3b1c91b3b6c7d49476852f0f7cfd651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      A Normie Democrat Revolt Is Pushing Abdul El-Sayed Toward Victory\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rep. 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Tom Tiffany, the likely GOP nominee. As DSA candidates rack up <span><u>victories<\/u><\/span> in blue cities and districts, tapping into a deep discontent within the Democratic Party, Hong\u2019s candidacy is the first test of it in a battleground state. The results, say Democrats in Wisconsin and Washington, will offer clues for how the party\u2019s electorate might assess a potential DSA-aligned candidate, like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in the 2028 presidential primary.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Democratic brand is struggling. The Republican brand is struggling,\u201d Hong told NOTUS in an interview. \u201cThe democratic socialist brand is starting to rise, especially among the voters who are hardest to reach, which are Gen Z and millennials.\u201d<\/p><p>That isn\u2019t a satisfactory answer, though, for some Wisconsin Democrats.<\/p><p>\u201cIf you\u2019re trying to explain what DSA is or isn\u2019t, you\u2019re losing,\u201d said a Wisconsin Democratic consultant not working with any of the gubernatorial candidates, who was granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, one of Hong\u2019s opponents in the Aug. 11 primary, is left trying to make the argument that Wisconsin is not like the heavily Democratic places where the DSA has flourished this year. \u201cNew York City and the state of Wisconsin\u201d are \u201cdifferent,\u201d he told a dozen voters in the town of Baraboo, many of whom nodded along.<\/p><p>But as has been true in other major races this year, from Colorado to Maine to New Jersey, the Democratic establishment has struggled to fend off the rising far left. Wisconsin has turned into the most vivid showdown of those competing wings. Democrats in the state have seen a cast of traditional candidates rise and fall over the past month \u2014 all while that wing of the party has failed to coalesce around a single alternative.<\/p><p>In early July, Crowley dropped out and endorsed Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, when it appeared she was uniting moderate support. But Rodriguez <span><u>dropped out<\/u><\/span> just over a week later, after her campaign acknowledged widespread campaign finance irregularities. Crowley opted to get back into the race with an endorsement from Gov. Tony Evers, who had previously said he\u2019d remain neutral; backers of another candidate, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, decried the move as fracturing the center-left bloc again.<\/p><p>But then Thursday, Barnes, who\u2019d been polling second-highest behind Hong, <span><u>dropped out<\/u><\/span>. In a video, he said the \u201cfront-runner is clear,\u201d but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel soon after <span><u>published a story<\/u><\/span> about concerns within the party that Barnes had allegedly used his political role to facilitate sexual relationships.<\/p><p>Crowley, along with state Sen. Kelda Roys and former Evers administration official Joel Brennan, were all polling in single-digits, while Hong hit 38 percent support <span><u>in a Marquette University survey<\/u><\/span> conducted in late July. About a third of voters were still undecided.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a collapse of the establishment combined with the bumbling of a bad situation,\u201d said Steve Schale, a national Democratic consultant. \u201cThe socialist doesn\u2019t have to get to 50 percent to win. It requires the normie class \u2014 mainstream, establishment, whatever it is \u2014 failing to recognize that threat and rally around one person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Wisconsin, several voters described the primary campaign as \u201cchaotic\u201d and \u201cunsettling,\u201d or \u201cbasically a reality show,\u201d as Caitlin Hapsel, a 38-year-old Greendale resident at Hong\u2019s event in Franklin, put it. Nyaga Kariuki, a 25-year-old Milwaukee voter, said \u201cthe moderates just did not get themselves together.\u201d<\/p><p>Moderates\u2019 disarray is worrying Eleanor Chiquoine, a 72-year-old voter from Sauk County who was happy to learn at Crowley\u2019s event in Baraboo that Barnes had dropped out \u2014 \u201cOh, that\u2019s good,\u201d she said. She worries that Hong is \u201cunelectable\u201d but she hasn\u2019t been able to settle on another option.<\/p><p>\u201cWhether it is fair or not, being labeled, in this state especially, as a democratic socialist, then that might be a harder sell than you think, and that\u2019s my concern,\u201d Chiquoine said. She left with a Crowley yard sign, but she said she planned to keep it in her dining room until she finally picks a candidate.<\/p><p>Those are the kinds of voters Crowley needs to win over in less than two weeks, a tall order for a candidate who\u2019s still trying to build his name recognition outside Milwaukee and with early voting already underway.<\/p><p>Crowley, in an interview with NOTUS, said he sees a \u201cclear path to consolidate these undecided voters\u201d that\u2019s \u201cbased off of my experience\u201d leading Milwaukee County and as a state legislator.<\/p><p>He\u2019s now making an all-out sprint to introduce himself to voters, helped by a surge in fundraising since he jumped back into the race. Another Wisconsin Democratic operative, granted anonymity to speak candidly and not affiliated with a gubernatorial candidate, argued that 60 percent of the electorate \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to vote for Fran,\u201d giving Hong a \u201chard floor and low ceiling\u201d of support.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2128\">Rep. Marcy Kaptur Hospitalized After Hit-and-Run Crash in Ohio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are enough voters out there, and if Crowley can muster enough resources and reach them, he can really do something here,\u201d the operative said. \u201cBut that\u2019s a narrow path.\u201d<\/p><p>Republicans, Crowley said, have picked Hong as their preferred candidate, pointing to the $3 million in TV ad spending the Republican Governors Association has dropped boosting her. <span><u>In a post on X last week<\/u><\/span>, Tiffany previewed his own line of attack on Hong, describing her as \u201ca card-carrying socialist committed to abolishing the police, the Senate, and prisons.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThat should make us pause a little bit, right?\u201d Crowley said at his meet-and-greet in Baraboo. \u201cIf they have an opportunity to pick our nominees and say, \u2018Oh, this is what communism looked like, or this is what socialism looks like,\u2019 what does that do [to] defining who we are?\u201d<\/p><p>Hong, a single mother and restaurant worker, has already started to define herself with voters, particularly younger, more liberal ones. Like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Hong has tapped into a potent organizing network, activating 7,000 volunteers and campaigning aggressively online. In answer to the voters who wanted to know how she\u2019d combat labels of communism, Hong said her campaign has put out \u201cclarification videos on our positions\u201d and urged voters to zero in on Tiffany\u2019s record.<\/p><p>\u201cBringing it back to policy is how we combat that word that, you know, they called Joe Biden and Tony Evers,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t even have a $10 minimum wage in our state, let alone $19, so what makes you think we\u2019re going to make socialism happen?\u201d<\/p><p>Eddie Phanichkul, a Democrat who is running to flip a state Assembly district in suburban Milwaukee and attended Hong\u2019s event in Franklin, acknowledged that \u201cthe socialism and the communism part is going to be a challenge.\u201d But he said he believed they could \u201covercome that challenge because we just have to talk to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NOTUS after speaking to a few dozen voters at a community garden in Milwaukee, Hong said, \u201cWisconsin is ready for a democratic socialist governor because we\u2019re fighting for the things that people are asking for\u201d and \u201ca growing number of voters who feel left behind and unheard.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cElectability is the person who wins the most votes,\u201d she said when pressed on how she\u2019d appeal to voters come November. \u201cI\u2019m a proud democratic socialist. I\u2019m not advancing a brand. I\u2019m focusing on the policies, the socialist policies that improve lives.\u201d<\/p><p>But some Wisconsin Democrats, particularly those focused on down-ballot state legislative races, don\u2019t buy that argument. Some privately fret that Hong\u2019s candidacy, and her DSA labeling, could make flipping state legislative seats more difficult and that money from Democratic donors would dry up.<\/p><p>In the districts where there are \u201cdata center fights, she might turn into a folk hero, and other places, it may be more complicated,\u201d said a third Wisconsin strategist who is not involved in the gubernatorial primary. \u201cPeople are incandescent about prices, the Iran war and data centers, so the question is, is all of that enough to overcome the kinds of attack ads Tiffany will surely be running the day after the primary.\u201d<\/p><p>It\u2019s Hong\u2019s positions on the \u201cdefund police\u201d movement that gives those Wisconsin Democrats the most heartburn, they said. \u201cShe\u2019s somewhat backed off of that, but the receipts are there, the tweets are there,\u201d the first Democratic consultant said.<\/p><p>In 2020, Hong posted <span><u>several<\/u><\/span> times in support of defunding the police after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. When a voter at the community garden event asked about her posts, Hong said, \u201cWe\u2019re in a different political climate than where we were five years ago, where the fearmongering of \u2018defund\u2019 is not as much of a priority when we\u2019re able to shift to the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on her position in the interview, Hong said her \u201cvalues are established.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cHow I believe I can make sure that we have laws that reflect those values, that may evolve, but again, I think it\u2019s more important about what I\u2019m going to do, and I\u2019m going to be investing in things that we know would prevent crime,\u201d she said. \u201cI won\u2019t defund the police, and I cannot.\u201d<\/p><p>DSA supporters, who gathered for their national meeting in Chicago over the weekend, are keeping a close eye on Wisconsin. Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, a DSA-backed candidate who won his own multicandidate congressional primary this year, said that \u201cif Hong wins, it will affirm that the platforms of democratic socialist candidates are more broadly embraced by a diverse electorate than corporate media and institutionalists within our electoral duopoly care to admit.\u201d<\/p><p>The DSA does have some political history on its side. At the Franklin Public Library event, one voter brought up Wisconsin\u2019s legacy as the <span><u>first state to elect a socialist<\/u><\/span> to Congress, in 1910.<\/p><p>\u201cDon\u2019t apologize for being a democratic socialist,\u201d the voter told Hong, rushing to shake her hand. \u201cThat\u2019s part of Wisconsin\u2019s tradition. Welcome.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2126\">A Normie Democrat Revolt Is Pushing Abdul El-Sayed Toward Victory<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic socialist Francesca Hong has risen to the top of a chaotic gubernatorial primary, with major ramifications for Democrats\u2019 future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wisconsin Is DSA\u2019s Biggest Test Yet - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2140\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wisconsin Is DSA\u2019s Biggest Test Yet - 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