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They Have Nothing to Run On
Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde says he has to laugh at some of the things that he’s being accused of this election season, but says there’s a reason Democrats are smearing him.
“They have nothing to run on,” Hovde told New Talk 1130 WISN’s Jay Weber on Wednesday. “So all they can do is make up lies, and attack with ridiculous accusations.”
Hovde laughed at the latest ad from his opponent, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin, that says he wants to ban beer sales in Wisconsin.
“I was just chugging a beer on Sunday because it was National Beer Day,” Hovde explained. “Look, they're so desperate. You can see just how desperate they are. Everything they are doing is desperation, and I think they know this thing is slipping away from them.”
The latest Marquette Law School Poll, which came out Wednesday, puts Hovde behind by two points, 51-49, in Wisconsin’s race for the U.S. Senate.
Hovde said there’s a sense that the presidential race is also slipping away from Democrats. He said that’s one of the reasons why President Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.”
“It is amazing, and it is disgusting how the press has handled things,” Hovde added.
He said he was pressed to answer for the joke about Puerto Rico at Trump’s New York rally last weekend, while he hasn’t seen anyone ask Democrats if they think that the former president is a Nazi, or if Trump voters are garbage.
“This is their rhetoric,” Hovde said. “And they're the ones that are supposedly defending democracy. They’ve weaponized the court system, turned our courts into political theater, trying to deny ballot access.”
Hovde said, instead, he is focusing on the economy, the border, crime, and Wisconsin’s fentanyl crisis.
“We've never had an election that's so consequential,” Hovde explained. “What do president Trump and I want to do? He wants to make America great again, same as me. And I want to restore the American dream. What do [Kamala] Harris and Baldwin want to do? They want to change America. Remember what they said four years ago, and man they sure have.”
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