{"id":2325067,"date":"2024-08-15T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-hovdes-wife-takes-on-tammy-baldwin-in-messy-wisconsin-senate-fight-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:46:01","slug":"eric-hovdes-wife-takes-on-tammy-baldwin-in-messy-wisconsin-senate-fight-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-hovdes-wife-takes-on-tammy-baldwin-in-messy-wisconsin-senate-fight-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hovde\u2019s wife takes on Tammy Baldwin in messy Wisconsin Senate fight &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Feric-hovdes-wife-takes-on-tammy-baldwin-in-messy-wisconsin-senate-fight-washington-examiner%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=2325067&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>The Wisconsin Senate race between incumbent Senator Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric \u200bHovde\u2062 is becoming increasingly contentious and \u200dpersonal. \u200bIn response to criticisms from Baldwin regarding\u2063 his past comments about single\u2062 mothers, Hovde&#8217;s wife,\u200b Sharon Hovde,\u200c has featured prominently in \u200da\u2063 new \u200bad defending him. In the advertisement,\u2064 she \u2063challenges Baldwin&#8217;s campaign tactics, stating that the senator&#8217;s \u200cattacks are lies\u2064 that do \u200bnot serve \u2063the people of Wisconsin. Sharon shares her own experience as a \u200dsingle mother, arguing that Hovde&#8217;s\u200d support \u2062for housing programs for single mothers stems\u200c from\u2063 firsthand knowledge of their struggles. \u2064The race is critical for Democrats, who\u2064 need\u2063 to secure several\u2064 seats to maintain Senate\u200c control. Eric Hovde has previously made statements linking out-of-wedlock childbirth to poverty,\u2063 which Baldwin \u200bhas highlighted in her own advertisements, enlisting the voices of children from\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-asylum-seekers-granted-u-s-entry-under-biden\/\" title=\"25 asylum seekers granted U.S. entry under Biden\">single-parent households<\/a> to emphasize\u2062 the impact of his views.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Eric Hovde&rsquo;s wife takes on Tammy Baldwin as Wisconsin Senate battle gets messy<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1730835\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The fight for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3116859\/wisconsin-senate-primary-baldwin-hovde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wisconsin Senate seat\">Wisconsin Senate seat<\/a> between Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tammy-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tammy Baldwin\">Tammy Baldwin<\/a> (D-WI) and Republican rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/eric-hovde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Eric Hovde\">Eric Hovde<\/a> is turning increasingly personal in the battleground state.<\/p>\n<p>Hovde has enlisted his wife, Sharon Hovde, in a new ad to rebuke criticism from the Baldwin campaign about past comments he made about single mothers and societal problems.<\/p>\n<p>The contentious race is one of more than a half-dozen races Democrats must win to retain control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Senator Baldwin, your dirty campaign has gone too far,&rdquo; Sharon Hovde says in the ad. &ldquo;Your latest attack on my husband is about single mothers. I was a single mom when I met Eric. It was hard. Eric saw the difficulty I faced just trying to afford childcare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Hovde attributes her experience as the reason her husband supports state housing programs available to single mothers before turning back to condemning the Baldwin campaign&rsquo;s rhetoric on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your whole campaign has been about lies and personal attacks,&rdquo; Sharon Hovde says. &ldquo;The people of Wisconsin deserve better. It&rsquo;s time for change.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During an unsuccessful 2012 Senate bid, Eric Hovde said during a radio interview that &ldquo;4 out of 10 children born in America, they are born out of wedlock,&rdquo; which he added &ldquo;is a direct path to a life of poverty.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>In a 2012 primary debate, he cited the same statistic and said policymakers must address it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Ew5gqHywzs0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It's Time for Change - Hovde for U.S. Senate\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ew5gqHywzs0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We know that leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/food-stamps-payment-dates-for-snap-benefits-in-june-2023\/\" title=\"June 2023 SNAP benefit payment dates.\">higher poverty rates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-right-cnn-guest-corrects-don-lemon-live-on-air-when-he-says-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\/\" title=\"\u2019That\u2019s Not Right\u2019: CNN Guest Corrects Don Lemon Live On Air When He Says CRT Isn\u2019t Taught In Schools\">higher incarceration rates<\/a>, for those young children, higher dropout rates, higher rates of depression,&rdquo; Eric Hovde said. &ldquo;It is devastating to them. We have to do everything we can to support the family unit, and we have to stop government policies that reward those that are having children out of wedlock and harming people that are having children in marriage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin featured some of those past remarks in an ad of her own last week. She enlisted the children of single mothers, one of whom says Eric Hovde &ldquo;thinks if you have a single mom, you&rsquo;re going to be poor or a drug addict.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In response to Eric Hovde&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-erasing-women-cosmetics-brand-uses-bearded-man-to-sell-lip-cream-and-gets-slammed\/\" title=\"\u2018STOP ERASING WOMEN\u2019: Cosmetics Brand Uses Bearded Man To Sell Lip Cream And Gets Slammed\">latest ad featuring<\/a> his wife, the Baldwin campaign told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in a statement that &ldquo;Eric Hovde&rsquo;s words speak for themselves.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He insulted the children of single mothers just like he has insulted Wisconsin seniors, farmers, and those struggling with their weight,&rdquo; said Baldwin campaign spokesman Andrew Mamo in reference to other 2012 comments made by Eric Hovde, such as those in nursing homes may be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2959970\/eric-hovde-questions-fitness-of-nursing-home-patients-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">too elderly to vote<\/a> or overweight people should&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/baldwin-pounces-on-hovde-comments-overweight-people-paying-more-for-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay more for healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wisconsinites deserve a senator who respects them, not one who demeans them,&rdquo; Mamo added.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1730835\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1730835\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hovde&#8217;s wife confronts Tammy Baldwin as the Wisconsin Senate race intensifies. The contest for a Senate seat in Wisconsin between Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde is becoming more personal. Hovde has brought his wife, Sharon Hovde, into a new advertisement to counter the Baldwin campaign&#8217;s criticisms regarding his previous remarks about single mothers and societal issues. This heated race is one of several that Democrats need to win to maintain their Senate majority. In the ad, Sharon Hovde states, &#8220;Senator Baldwin, your dirty campaign has gone too far,&#8221; addressing Baldwin&#8217;s recent attacks on her husband concerning single mothers. She shares her own experience as a single mother when she met Eric and highlights the challenges she faced with childcare costs. Sharon attributes her background to her husband&#8217;s support for state housing programs aimed at assisting single mothers while condemning Baldwin\u2019s campaign tactics as filled with lies and personal assaults: &#8220;The people of Wisconsin deserve better. It\u2019s time for change.&#8221; During his unsuccessful 2012 Senate run, Eric Hovde remarked in a radio interview that &#8220;4 out of 10 children born in America are born out of wedlock,&#8221; which he claimed leads directly to poverty. He reiterated this point during a primary debate, emphasizing the negative consequences such circumstances have on children\u2019s lives\u2014higher poverty rates, incarceration rates, dropout rates, and depression\u2014and called for policies that support family units rather than those that incentivize having children outside of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin responded by featuring some of these past statements in an advertisement where she included testimonies from children of single mothers; one child accused Eric Hovde of believing that having a single mother equates to being poor or addicted to drugs. In reaction to Eric Hovde&#8217;s latest ad featuring his wife, the Baldwin campaign stated through spokesman Andrew Mamo that &#8220;Eric Hovde\u2019s words speak for themselves.&#8221; Mamo criticized him for insulting not only single mothers&#8217; children but also seniors in nursing homes and overweight individuals based on other comments made by him during 2012 campaigns\u2014suggesting elderly voters might be too old or implying higher healthcare costs should apply to overweight people\u2014and concluded by asserting that Wisconsinites deserve a senator who respects them rather than belittles them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2325068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tammy-baldwin-eric-hovde.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38079,33748,37857],"class_list":["post-2325067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-eric-hovde","tag-tammy-baldwin","tag-wisconsin-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tammy-baldwin-eric-hovde.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325067","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}