Wisconsin State Assembly

I talked to a number of insiders who gave me about as honest a picture about what's going on here in Wisconsin as it gets.

These are people with access to state-level polling, yes, but also assembly and Senate district polling.

And they can tell you almost down to the ward just how things are looking for Tom Tiffany, for the very thin Wisconsin Senate majority, the somewhat more robust Wisconsin Assembly majority, and also two congressional races that are very much at risk of falling into Democrat hands.

Those seats currently held by Derrick Van Orden and Brian Steil, who was a guest on the show yesterday.

Over the course of much of this hour, we are going to get into what that data shows.

We're going to get within a couple of seats in 2024, and then we're going to win the whole thing in 2026.

Because they were so successful in 2024, even when Donald Trump won pretty convincingly as far as presidential elections here in Wisconsin go, they are now just flush with cash.

But so too are Assembly Republicans.

There was a whole bunch of other great things going on.

We had Tom Tiffany and Eric Toney and, um, Jay Schroeder and David Varnum, whole bunch of State Assembly and Senate candidates.

Myself, I was there.

Um, and it was...

I'm not going to lie about that.

But how is it that Republicans are still favored to hold on to the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin Assembly if it's going to be such a massive blowout? The Iran war was not politically smart.

Geopolitically, the timing was, according to the Trump administration, necessary.

I guess I will choose to believe them on that one.

He calls into my show demanding to be put on the air to tell his side of the story, and he swore multiple times.

I believe one was the F-bomb, one was the SH, and I said, "Mitchell, I can't put you on, and frankly, you are just a little bit too intense, and I can sort of see what those ladies at the front desk of the Raymond School District were so concerned about." We just had Congressman Bryan Steil on who said, "Yeah, that sort of tracks with everything that we're hearing about this guy, that he just seems a couple of cards short of a deck." Well, you don't want an honest-to-goodness joker in the halls of Congress, especially when the alternative is one of the very best reps in the House of Representatives.

From the U.S. House to the Wisconsin Senate, U.S. Senate to the Wisconsin Assembly, could Republicans be in better shape than you might think? That coming up next.

Three weeks away to the day from Election Day, the midterms 2026.

We're gonna have Angela Cummins from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

And, oh my God, we also have a pre-recorded interview with Jeremiah Fredrickson, Democratic candidate for Wi- Wisconsin State Assembly District 92.

So you do not want to miss any part of this second hour.

And did I mention, Patti Vasquez herself will be back.

They'll be performing at the second annual Concert for Democracy this coming Sunday, October eleventh in Elk Grove Village.

Jesse Catera's junior candidate for DuPage County's, uh, County Board, um, six, and Jeremiah Fredrickson, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin State Assembly.

That is Driving Home with Patty Vasquez, weekdays five to seven here on WCPT Heartland Signal website.

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In 2008, I, I, uh, ran for the state assembly and I rode that Barack Obama fellow's coattails into office that year.

Um, so I, for three terms, I represented Sauk, and Columbia, and Marquette Counties in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Very involved in those years in natural resources.

I chaired the forestry committee in the Wisconsin Assembly.

I, I really like to talk about it as my parents were both public servants, uh, and I think they taught me the values of trying to make a difference, and I think those are the values that led me to be interested in military service, to eventually attend West Point, and then, yeah, to serve all over.

I deployed a couple times, once to Iraq and Kuwait, uh, and I, I think they're the same values that, that have led me to this run today now for State Assembly.

Incredible.

And, and I, I've-- Based on what I've read, you commanded 155 soldiers, and now you're knocking on doors in Greendale.