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Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin

Rightwing effort to oust Wisconsin’s Republican assembly speaker falters

A man wearing a black suit, white shirt and green tie speaks in to multiple mics placed in front of him
Vos had refused to push for the removal of Meagan Wolfe, the non-partisan head of the Wisconsin election commission. Photograph: Samantha Madar/AP

An effort by rightwing activists to recall Wisconsin’s powerful Republican assembly speaker Robin Vos appears to have failed.

The campaign, which was launched in January, was a long-shot attempt by Maga activists to squash their feud with the establishment-leaning assembly speaker by forcing him out of office. It wasn’t the first time the activists, who identify themselves as the “grassroots” of the Wisconsin Republican party, tried to remove him from office. Vos’s opponents challenged him in a primary in 2022 and came within 300 votes of winning.

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