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Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden is projected to fend disconnected a competitory situation from Democrat Rebecca Cooke successful Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District predetermination connected Tuesday, avoiding an upset.
Van Orden was first elected successful 2022, and the 2024 predetermination was his archetypal arsenic an incumbent.
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Rep. Derrick Van Orden (Office of Congressman Derrick Van Orden)
He is simply a retired Navy SEAL and a vocal protagonist of erstwhile President Trump, who endorsed him successful the race. Van Orden is besides an state of Republican House leadership.
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A pistillate dons a Cheesehead chapeau with an American emblem connected it successful Wisconsin. (Reuters)
Cooke is simply a section business proprietor and was appointed by Wisconsin's Democrat Gov. Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
The Democrat won a heated superior successful the territory successful bid to instrumentality connected Van Orden.
There are respective adjacent elections successful Wisconsin. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)
The 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin includes parts of Dunn, Pierce, Pepin, Eau Claire, Buffalo, Trempealeau, Jackson, Monroe, La Crosse, Vernon, Richland, Crawford, Grant, Adams and Portage counties.
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Wisconsin is besides a statesmanlike battleground state. (Reuters | iStock)
In 2022, Van Orden defeated Democrat campaigner Brad Pfaff, flipping the legislature territory for Republicans.
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Top governmental handicapper, the Cook Political Report, rated the contention arsenic "Lean Republican."
The reasonably competitory Wisconsin contention was expected to assistance find which enactment would person the bulk successful the adjacent Congress.
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Julia Johnson is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, starring sum of the U.S. Senate. She was antecedently a authorities newsman astatine the Washington Examiner.
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