{"id":77337,"date":"2026-08-12T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/wisconsin-democrats-chose-a-middle-path-will-it-lead-to-victory-in-november\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:56:23","slug":"wisconsin-democrats-chose-a-middle-path-will-it-lead-to-victory-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/wisconsin-democrats-chose-a-middle-path-will-it-lead-to-victory-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Democrats chose a middle path \u2013 will it lead to victory in November?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic socialist Francesca Hong fell just short as David Crowley strives for unity for the general election<\/p>\n<p>Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, was on course to win the party\u2019s nomination for Wisconsin governor on Wednesday by a clear margin, according to the polls \u2013 presaging the latest in an extraordinary wave of leftwing victories across the country, challenging the party\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n<p>It was not to be. In a photo finish after a messy campaign, David Crowley eked out a win by a few thousand votes over Hong, raising questions over the limits of the progressive movement that has swept through Democratic contests in recent months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/12\/wisconsin-primary-democrats-david-crowley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic socialist Francesca Hong fell just short as David Crowley strives for unity for the general election Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, was on course to win the party\u2019s nomination for Wisconsin governor on Wednesday by a clear margin, according to the polls \u2013 presaging the latest in an extraordinary wave of leftwing victories across &#8230; <a title=\"Wisconsin Democrats chose a middle path \u2013 will it lead to victory in November?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/wisconsin-democrats-chose-a-middle-path-will-it-lead-to-victory-in-november\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wisconsin Democrats chose a middle path \u2013 will it lead to victory in November?\">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-77337","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\/77337","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=77337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}