Evers, Democrats push early voting two weeks out from election

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers was in Madison Tuesday encouraging people to vote early with just two weeks left in the campaign.

It is largely up to the campaigns now to turn out their voters, and Claudia Pogreba, a grassroots organizer at the event, said that it is the infrequent voters who could be a boon to Democrats, especially Evers.

Evers himself stressed that early voting lets those voters get it out of the way, giving them more time to help with campaigns.

“I think it’s important, especially for people that are doing the canvassing and phone calling — they can get the vote out of the way and they can start working on the people that they know,” Evers said.

The Madison event was part of a statewide effort by Democrats to encourage early voting. Other Democrats on the ballot like Attorney General Josh Kaul touted their record on issues like abortion as a reason to give them another term.

This is ahead of national figures coming to Wisconsin this week, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wednesday and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday, both coming to the UW-Madison campus. Former President Barack Obama will be in Milwaukee on Saturday.

On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson held his own “get out the vote” effort in Waukesha Tuesday, which comes just one day ahead of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin campaigning with Tim Michels in the same city.