Cook Political Report Shifts Key Swing- State Senate Race In Republicans’ Favor

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde’s electoral odds against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin saw a boost after a Tuesday Cook Political Report rating shifted the race in the GOP’s favor.

Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election and campaign watcher, shifted its rating for the Wisconsin Senate seat from lean Democrat to toss up. Recent polls still show Hovde at a deficit, although the Republican has begun to narrow in on the Democratic incumbent’s lead, which may give Republicans the leg up they need to regain a Senate majority.

“After 25 years in Washington, Tammy Baldwin has become the typical D.C. politician, voting in lock-step with the failed Biden agenda and hiding her Wall Street partner’s stock trades from her constituents,” Tate Mitchel, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement. “Wisconsinites are ready for change, and Eric Hovde has the momentum.”

“Wisconsin is a must-win state, but National Republicans just dropped another $17M to help Eric Hovde buy this Senate seat,” Baldwin’s campaign said in a Tuesday post on X. “The GOP’s last-minute ad blitz is moving the needle.”