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Sharing Hope with Wisconsin: Looking into Opportunities for more House seats [1]
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Date: 2025-07-09
There were no Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website ] canvasses on July 5th except in the two states with key 2025 elections (Virginia and New Jersey). Which gives us the opportunity to catch up on canvasses in areas we haven’t talked about as much.
The last Saturday in June was our 7th canvass in Wisconsin. It was a delightful morning for it. There was talk about the WashPost header, “Wisconsin may be central in the fight for the House.”
The biggest political story over the next 18 months will be the fight for a House majority. And no state is likely to have a more significant impact in that fight than Wisconsin.
There had been a prospect -- many would have called it a hope -- that Wisconsin would remap their Congressional Districts. You might even say, expectation that the Wisconsin Supreme Court would step in.
Redistricting was an issue in this year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race – a nominally nonpartisan contest that was won by the Democratic-backed Susan Crawford and helped preserve the court’s 4-3 liberal majority. Some Republicans had speculated that Crawford’s election would lead to the state’s congressional map being redrawn to Democrats’ benefit ahead of the 2026 midterms.
But the Wisconsin Supreme Court dashed those hopes, rejecting two lawsuits on the subject without comment.
Due to Democratic (aspirational) targeting, we are working on expanding our canvassing there. We continue to knock on doors in the WOW counties and Madison suburbs but have expanded into the pink district targeted by the DCCC (WI-01— south of Milwaukee) and the Toss-Up District (WI-03 — the expansive CD on the western border). There is no Senate race next year, so our focus is definitely on the House seats. Our goal is to at least win one out of the two targeted GOP seats next year. 521 volunteers came out to canvass in Wisconsin on Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend. Hope Springs volunteers knocked on 38,397 doors and talked to 3,110 voters. 1,990 of those voters answered at least some of our questions on the Issues Survey. Hope Springs from Field volunteers re-registered 6 voters who updated their addresses for the voter file to comply with federal law. The Economy was the Top Concern among the Wisconsin voters we talked to on Saturday. Jobs was the second most frequently cited concern. Tariffs was third.
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