Regardless of Wisconsin being beneath a shelter-in-place order since March 25 because of the coronavirus pandemic, polls nonetheless ope
Regardless of Wisconsin being beneath a shelter-in-place order since March 25 because of the coronavirus pandemic, polls nonetheless opened within the state’s main election on Tuesday, April 7.
Wisconsin, which has greater than 2,000 confirmed instances of coronavirus as of April 5, is the one state out of 11 initially scheduled to carry Democratic presidential primaries in April that has not postponed or considerably modified the best way folks can vote on this spring’s primaries.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers repeatedly tried to delay the state’s elections, citing fears that in-person voting may bolster the unfold of the coronavirus. However Wisconsin Republicans and the state’s Supreme Courtroom, which is managed by conservatives, rebuffed Evers. Republicans additionally fought off the governor’s efforts to mail ballots to each voter and permit ballots to be counted past the unique April 7 election date.
Joe Biden is up in opposition to Bernie Sanders on the Democratic presidential main poll. Heading into the first election, Biden has held a agency lead over Sanders, in response to FiveThirtyEight’s common of polls, which had the previous vice chairman at 53 p.c help and the Vermont senator at 36 p.c.
Biden, who’s main within the nationwide delegate depend, appears to be like well-positioned to win nearly all of Wisconsin’s 84 pledged delegates. A victory for the previous vice chairman could be a blow to Sanders, who received the state’s main in 2016.
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