{"id":77301,"date":"2026-08-12T03:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/david-crowley-defeats-francesca-hong-to-win-democratic-primary-for-wisconsin-governor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:55:38","slug":"david-crowley-defeats-francesca-hong-to-win-democratic-primary-for-wisconsin-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/david-crowley-defeats-francesca-hong-to-win-democratic-primary-for-wisconsin-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"David Crowley defeats Francesca Hong to win Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowly pulls off last-minute victory in tight race after polls had shown his progressive opponent as a clear frontrunner <\/p>\n<p>David Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, pulled off a last-minute victory after re-entering the Wisconsin governor\u2019s race and snagging an endorsement from Tony Evers, the outgoing governor.<\/p>\n<p>The race came down to the wire, with Francesca Hong and Crowley running close to each other as each batch of results came in. Polls had shown Hong as a clear frontrunner in the race, but with large chunks of voters still undecided and an ever-changing field of candidates, polling was difficult. Polls in Michigan similarly showed progressive Abdul El-Sayed with a more sizeable lead than he ended up with in his victory in the Democratic primary for US senate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/12\/david-crowley-defeats-francesca-hong-to-win-democratic-primary-for-wisconsin-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowly pulls off last-minute victory in tight race after polls had shown his progressive opponent as a clear frontrunner David Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, pulled off a last-minute victory after re-entering the Wisconsin governor\u2019s race and snagging an endorsement from Tony Evers, the outgoing governor. The race came down to the wire, with Francesca &#8230; <a title=\"David Crowley defeats Francesca Hong to win Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/david-crowley-defeats-francesca-hong-to-win-democratic-primary-for-wisconsin-governor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about David Crowley defeats Francesca Hong to win Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}