Senate Democrat Tammy Baldwin won re-election Tuesday because she outperformed her party’s standard-bearer, Kamala Harris, across most of Wisconsin, but especially in smaller counties where former President Donald Trump made his biggest gains and in election wards with lower incomes and lower rates of college education.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., talks about her victory over Republican challenger Eric Hovde Thursday, Nov. 7 ...

Wisconsin’s sizable rural electorate played a decisive role in flipping Wisconsin into the win column for Donald Trump this week. Trump won Wisconsin’s rural vote by a margin of about 22.3 percentage points,

Critical shifts within key Democratic voting blocs and low voter enthusiasm for her campaign dealt a blow to Vice President Kamala Harris’s ambitions to sit in the Oval Office. President-elect Donald Trump shocked Democrats this week by winning at least five battlegrounds and the popular vote to secure a resounding victory in the Electoral College.

President-elect Donald Trump’s popularity grew in a lot of areas in the 2024 election in Wisconsin. But some of those shifts were less expected, such as a 3% shift toward Trump in the state’s youngest set of wards while the oldest shifted just 1% toward Trump in 2024,