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The latest snapshot of the Democrat race for governor shows another strong showing for Francesca Hong.
Democrats hosted a straw poll at their weekend convention in Madison over the weekend.
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez won the poll with about 27% of the vote. Hong came in second with 23% of the vote. State Sen. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, came in third with 19% of the vote.
The other four candidates came in far behind.
Perhaps the worst performance in the straw poll came from former Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes. He got just 41 of the 600 ballots cast, or about 7% of the vote, and finished sixth out of seven candidates.
Rodriguez preached electability and affordability during her time to speak to delegates at the convention.
"Our neighbors are scared. They are angry because even if they are doing everything right, they cannot make ends meet," Rodriguez said. "Trump doesn't care. He said, and I quote, I love the inflation, and that was just this week. Tom Tiffany doesn't care. He has voted for Trump's entire cost-raising agenda 100% of the time."
Hong, instead, hammered the movement that she says is gathering behind her.
"I am running on a platform of permanent affordability. Not as a slogan, but as a practice," Hong told the crowd. "I will not meekly accept the sell-out of Wisconsin to trillionaires, billionaires, and millionaires. I am the only candidate in this race with a plan for free childcare...and I am the only candidate in this race who takes income and power inequality seriously as the most urgent crisis of our times."
Hong’s speech was met with a rousing wave of applause from Democrats at the convention.
But it was met with criticism on X.
"The Democrat frontrunner for governor, @FrancescaHongWI, wants to abolish police, abolish prisons, and abolish immigration enforcement," Tiffany wrote on X. "The choice this November is clear: crazy or common sense?"
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