% PBSWISCONSIN.ORG/NEWS.
% SO THE RED TSUNAMI DID NOT
% MATERIALIZE.%TONY EVERS WON A
ND SO DID RON
% JOHNSON.
% HOW TO PARTISANS FEEL ABOUT THE
% RESULTS?
% WE TURN TO THE POLITICAL
% PANELIST, BILL McCOSHEN, A
% CONSULTANT, AND DEMOCRAT, SCOT
% ROSS.
% THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
% >> THANKS FOR HAVING US.
% >> THANK YOU.%>> Frederica:
WHAT'S YOUR
% REACTION,, AND SKOT, TO THE
% ELECTION?
% >> EVERS' MANDATE NOW MEANS WE
% MOVE FORWARD.
% DEMOCRACY WAS ON THE THE BALLOT,
% ABORTION, AND FREEDOM ON THE%
BALLOT, AND THE PEOPLE RESPONDED% AN
D SAID THEY WANTED THE
% DEMOCRATIC WAY.
% THEY WANTED EVERS IN THERE TO
% MAKE SURE FREEDOMS ARE
% PROTECTED.
% WE'LL HAVE FREE AND FAIR
% ELECTIONS FROM NOW ON.
% LET'S SEE IF THE REPUBLICANS CAN
% JOIN US IN THE MANDATE AND MOVE
% THE STATE FORWARD.
% >> Frederica: BILL, WHAT WAS
% YOUR ANSWER?
% >> LIKE A YOUTH SOCCER
% TOURNAMENT, EVERYONE GOT A
% TROPHY, REPUBLICANS WON THE
% SENATE RACE, TREASURER'S RACE,
% 3rd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
% AND GOT SEATS IN THE ASSEMBLY
% AND SENATE.
% THERE ARE BIG WINS ON THE
% REPUBLICAN SIDE ON TUESDAY NIGHT
% AS WELL.
% GRANTED, THERE WERE SOME
% SIGNIFICANT DEMOCRATIC WINS.
% LOSING THE GOVERNORSHIP AND AG'S
% RACE, AND THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE
% IS A MASSIVE MISSED OPPORTUNITY
% FOR REPUBLICANS.
% THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
% >> Frederica: YOU SPOKE, BILL,
% TO LESSONS LEARNED AFTER THE
% DEFEAT OF YOUR CANDIDATE, TIM
% MICHAELS, LIKE WHAT?
% >> WELL, I THINK, NUMBER ONE, IS
% MONEY, RIGHT?
% YOU NEED MONEY, ORGANIZATION,
% AND MESSAGE TO WIN STATEWIDE,
% AND, YOU KNOW, TIM WAS MASSIVELY
% OUTSPENT, AND AT THE END OF THE
% DAY, MONEY MATTERS.
% YOU CAN'T GET OUTSPENT
% $12 MILLION TO $20 MILLION AND
% HOPE TO COMPETE IN THE STATE OF
% WISCONSIN.%I THINK THAT WAS O
NE THING.
% ON THE GROUND, I GIVE DEMOCRATS
% THE CREDIT.
% THEY ACTUALLY HAD A VERY
% STRATEGIC GROUND,
% MICROTARGETTING EFFORT ON CAMPUS
% ACROSS THE STATE, WHICH,
% FRANKLY, MADE THE 3rd
% CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CLOSER
% THAN MOST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
% AND TARGET THE YOUNG PEOPLE ON
% ABORTION.
% GEN-Z IS THE ONLY DEMOGRAPHIC
% THAT VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN
% OVERWHELMING NUMBERS TUESDAY
% NIGHT.
% EVERYONE ELSE VOTED REPUBLICAN.
% DEMOCRATS UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY%
WERE AND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM
% AND GET THEM OUT.
% >> Frederica: YOU SPOKE TO THE
% IDEAS OF DANE COUNTY AS THE
% POWER HOUSE, WHICH, PERHAPS,
% THAT CAME PAIN, THE TIM
% MICHAELS' CAMPAIGN, DID NOT PAY
% ATTENTION TO.%>> I'M A BROKE
N RECORD ON THIS
% AND SAID IT FOR 20 YEARS.
% WHEN MARK NEWMAN LOSS IN 1998 BY
% 90,000 VOTES, BELLS SHOULD HAVE
% BEEN GOING OFF FOR EVERY
% REPUBLICAN.
% THEY WERE NOT.
% EVERS BEAT MICHAELS BY 173,000
% VOTES TUESDAY NIGHT, ABOUT
% INSURMOUNTABLE.
% RON JOHNSON WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME
% IT IN LARGE MEASURE DEFINING
% BARNES ON THE TERMS HE WANTED
% HIM DEFINED.
% WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT, BUT
% DANE COUNTY NEEDS TO BE A HIGHER
% PRIORITY FOR REPUBLICANS IF THEY
% EVER WANT TO WIN THE
% GOVERNORSHIP AGAIN.%>> Frede
rica: SCOT, YOUR TAKE
% AWAY FOR THE CLOSE LOSS?
% >> REASON DANE COUNTY VOTES
% DEMOCRAT DEMOCRATIC IS THEY
% REFLECT THE VALUES, AND
% REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
% CHANGE STRIPES TO MAKE END ROADS
% IN DANE COUNTY.
% STARTING THERE.
% VERY DISAPPOINTING.
% YOU KNOW, BARNES KEPT HANGING
% WITH WISCONSIN, AND IT IS
% UNFORTUNATE WHAT HAPPENED,
% WHICH, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT
% THE MONEY, BARNES OUTSPENT BY
% $29 MILLION.
% I DON'T THINK WE CAN, YOU KNOW,
% UNDERSTATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
% DIANE AND THE LINES.
% THEY GOT $500 MILLION FROM RON
% JOHNSON IN A PERSONAL TAX BREAK
% EXTORTED PUBLICLY FOR THEM AND
% WENT ON TO BASICALLY FINANCE
% HALF OF THE EFFORT, YOU KNOW,
% AGAINST BARNES FOR RON JOHNSON.%
I THINK THAT'S JUST SHOCKING.
% >> Frederica: IN MILWAUKEE
% COUNTY, TURNOUT WAS DOWN FROM
% 2018.
% WHAT'S THAT ABOUT?
% >> I MEAN, I THINK, YOU KNOW,
% YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU GET
% VOTERS OUT TO THE POLLS.
% MILWAUKEE DOES A GOOD JOB OF IT.
% YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU ARE
% SHORT, THOUGH, AND I THINK, YOU
% KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE BREEZE,
% YOU KNOW, THIS WAS THE CLOSEST
% SENATE RACE I CAN REMEMBER OR --
% >> FIRST TIME IN HISTORY BOTH
% STATEWIDE RACES WITHIN 3%.
% FIRST TIME IN HISTORY.
% >> AND WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO
% 1998 FOR A U.S. SENATE RACE THAT
% CLOSE, AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK
% IF THE BREEZE BLOWS DIFFERENT ON
% ELECTION DAY, BARNES IS U.S.
% SENATOR ELECT.%>> THREE OF US
ARE OLD ENOUGH TO
% REPUBLICAN WHEN WISCONSIN SPLIT
% THE TICKET A LOT.
% IN THE 1990s A LOT, 1998,
% GOVERNOR WON WITH 60%, AND
% FINEGOLD BEAT NEWMAN.
% >> ONLY BY 37,000 VOTES.
% >> THAT WAS THE LAST TIME, 24
% YEARS AGO SPLITTING THE TICKET
% AT THE TOP.
% >> Frederica: YOU TALKED ABOUT
% REPUBLICANS, BILL, FINDING A
% DIFFERENT CANDIDATE TO APPEAL TO
% SUBURBAN VOTERS.
% IS IT THE ALLURE OF DONALD TRUMP
% OVER?%>> I THINK IT'S OVER.
% I THINK THE PARTY'S READY TO
% LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACKWARDS,
% AND, YOU KNOW, HOPEFUL PRESIDENT
% TRUMP DOES NOT ANNOUNCE FOR THE
% WHITE HOUSE NEXT WEEK BECAUSE I
% THINK THAT DISRUPTS WHAT'S GOING
% ON IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, AND
% I THINK GEORGIA SHOULD BE
% REPUBLICAN'S SOLE FOCUS FOR NEXT
% 30 DAYS, AND ANYTHING IN THE WAY
% OF THAT SHOULD BE SHUNNED BY
% VOTERS, AND I THINK YOU SEE HIS
% RECENT ATTACK ON RON DeSANTIS
% THIS WEEK THAT REPUBLICANS ARE
% PUSHING BACK IN A BIG WAY.
% I -- DONALD TRUMP MAY, IN FACT,
% GET IN THE RACE, BUT IT'S NOT A
% GIVEN HE'S THE NOMINEE.
% >> Frederica: SCOT, HOW DO
% DEMOCRATS RECLAIM SUPPORT OF
% RURAL VOTERS?
% >> THEY HAD IT IN LA CROSSE AND
% O'CLAIRE, CARRYING A LOT OF THE
% COUNTIES, YOU KNOW, THAT HE
% CARRIED LAST TIME.
% I DON'T THINK DEMOCRATS HAVE A
% RURAL REPUBLICAN, BUT
% REPUBLICANS HAVE A SUBURBAN
% PROBLEM, THE DARK RED WOW
% COUNTIES ARE MOVING TOWARDS
% DEMOCRATS, AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S
% WHERE WE ARE AT.
% >> Frederica: I JUST WANT TO
% SPIN NOW TO THE NEXT BIG RACE IN
% WISCONSIN, STATE SUPREME COURT
% RACE.
% WHAT'S THE STAKES, BILL?
% >> HUGE.
% 4-3 CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY, BRIAN
% SWINGS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN
% THE TWO BLOCKS OF THREE, AND SO
% IT'S NOT DECIDEDLY CONSERVATIVE.
% THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE SEAT
% THAT'S UP, AND I THINK THE
% STAKES ARE VERY, VERY HIGH, AND
% THERE'S AT LEAST ONE
% CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN
% ALREADY, FORMER SUPREME COURT
% JUSTICE DAN KELLY, FAIRLY
% CONFIDENT THERE'S GOING TO BE
% ANOTHER POSSIBLY JUDGE DORREL
% BEFORE THE END OF NOVEMBER.
% >> Frederica: SCOT?
% >> COUPLE THINGS, ONE, BRIAN'S
% DONE WITH HIS SWING DANCE PARTY,
% LIKE, IT'S OVER, HE'S WITH THE
% REPUBLICANS FROM HERE ON NOW.
% SECOND THING IS, PROGRESSIVES
% HAVE AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY,
% EVER SINCE MIKE GABLEMAN WON IN
% 2008, THE SUPREME COURT'S BEEN
% CONTROLLED BY REPUBLICANS.
% YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATS HAVE A
% FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY.
% I THINK THEY'LL SEIZE IT.
% I DON'T THINK ANY OTHER ROM
% REPUBLICANS GET IN.
% >> Frederica: WE LEAVE IT
% THERE, BILL McCOSHEN, SCOT
% ROSS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.%>>
THANK YOU.
% >> Frederica: FOR MORE ON THIS
% AND OTHER ISSUES, GO TO