Meet Wisconsin Democrats' new socialist front-runner for governor

Meet Wisconsin Democrats’ new socialist front-runner for governor


Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race just gave voters a preview of what the modern Democratic Party looks like once the “electability” wing gets out of the way: a democratic socialist front-runner sharing a stage with Hasan Piker and Ilhan Omar, promising the crowd that Wisconsin will never elect a Republican again.

On Sunday, Francesca Hong took the stage at South Milwaukee High School with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Hasan Piker — the Twitch streamer who has previously said that America “deserved 9/11.”

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None of that stopped the crowd from giving Piker a standing ovation at the rally.

Piker livestreamed the whole event, called Wisconsin the birthplace of the American socialist movement “long before Zohran [Mamdani] and Bernie Sanders,” and promised that “a Republican

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