{"id":1748518,"date":"2022-11-22T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748518"},"modified":"2022-11-22T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:18:13","slug":"gop-challenger-concedes-race-for-wisconsin-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-challenger-concedes-race-for-wisconsin-secretary-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Challenger Concedes Race for Wisconsin Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-challenger-concedes-race-for-wisconsin-secretary-of-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748518&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican nominee conceded defeat Monday in her bid to unseat Democrat incumbent Doug La Follette for the position of secretary of state in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With over 2.6 million votes cast, final <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Wisconsin_Secretary_of_State_election,_2022\">results<\/a> from the Nov. 8 midterm election show La Follette defeated Loudenbeck by 0.3 percentage points, or 7,660 votes. Loudenbeck conceded Monday morning after county canvasses ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the election did not turn out the way we hoped it would,\u201d Loudenbeck <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voteamywi\/status\/1594761874113179648\">stated<\/a> in a Twitter post. \u201cThe feeling of disappointment is real, but so is the gratitude I have for the thousands of Wisconsinites who supported me in this campaign for Secretary of State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loudenbeck went on to say that she had no regrets on how her campaign was run and expressed gratitude to her family, team, and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>La Follette first assumed the office of Secretary of State from 1975 to 1979, after previously being elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1972 until 1974. In 1978, La Follette stepped down from his position to mount a failed run for lieutenant governor. He was then elected Secretary of State a second time in 1982 and has since served 10 consecutive terms.<\/p>\n<p>Although La Follette declared victory last Thursday, Loudenbeck did not concede at that point, with the contest remaining too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the secretary of state\u2019s duties have been peeled away since La Follette began his tenure. Following the 2020 election, some Republicans sought to convert the office into an election oversight position.<\/p>\n<p>Loudenbeck campaigned on shifting oversight of Wisconsin elections from the bipartisan state elections commission to the secretary of state. This model would be similar to what is used by 38 other states. La Follette countered by questioning whether Loudenbeck would seek to use this position to ensure Donald Trump wins Wisconsin in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Loudenbeck repeatedly declined to explain how much control over elections she wants or how she thinks elections should be administered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legislature should explore a wide range of policy options to utilize this constitutional office that is directly accountable to voters,\u201d Loudenbeck said,\u00a0\u201cand look at what other states are doing and talk about restoring some traditional responsibilities, including election oversight, if appropriate, to the office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following his victory over Loudenbeck, La Follette extended his tenure as Wisconsin\u2019s longest-serving Secretary of State. La Follette is a distant relative of \u201cFighting\u201d Bob La Follette, a progressive who was Wisconsin\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> governor, served in the U.S. House and Senate, and ran for president in 1924.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-bradley-martin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WEB_BradleyMartin.jpg\" alt=\"Bradley Martin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bradley Martin is the executive director for the Near East Center for Strategic Studies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican nominee conceded defeat Monday in her bid to unseat Democrat incumbent Doug La Follette for the position of secretary of state in Wisconsin.With over 2.6 million votes cast, final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1738822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}