With hopes of filling a seat that opened with longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s retirement, four Democrats are vying for the nomination in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District.
Derrick Van Orden, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump and narrowly lost to Kind in 2020, is running unopposed in the Republican primary.
The district is now friendlier to Republicans, and it is the No. 1 congressional district likely to flip, according to the National Journal.
“It’s pretty clear. That is the number one race in Wisconsin,” political analyst Joe Heim told LaCrosse, Wisconsin-based News8000.com.
Kind defeated Van Orden by less than three percentage points in 2020 in a district that Trump won by five percentage points the same year….