Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost the election but also raised questions about the legitimacy of the result as he mulls requesting a recount.
According to exit polls, Wisconsin didn't actually have that many voters who split their tickets between Trump and Baldwin. Polls suggest 4% of Trump voters in Wisconsin voted for Baldwin, while 3% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris voted for Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde.
Wisconsin Republican Eric Hovde is refusing to concede defeat to Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin in their U.S. Senate race
Eric Hovde, who lost his Senate campaign, is the first prominent candidate to suggest his race was rigged. We fact-checked his case.
Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde released a video Tuesday questioning the Wisconsin election results that show he lost to incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) last week. “Many people have been wondering why I have remained quiet since election night.
Exit polls and numbers show he may be right on that, but then he went too far, claiming, based on what he’d seen on television, that "every single county in America, every single county, Kamala Harris did worse than Joe Biden did."
Wisconsin was a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 10 electoral votes at stake.
Republican businessman Eric Hovde has yet to concede the Wisconsin Senate race to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).  He has not made a public statement since the day after the election last week, nor has he requested a recount in the race.
Here's how each county in Wisconsin voted in alphabetical order. All totals are unofficial until ballots are canvassed. Get daily updates on the Packers during the season. Adams County Donald Trump has won Adams County with 60.
Tammy Baldwin was declared the winner over Eric Hovde on 49.4 percent of the vote compared to 48.5 percent, according to AP.
A chart shows votes for Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin increasing when Milwaukee reported its absentee ballot results -- as officials expected.