Tom Tiffany concedes Wisconsin governor race

That Tom Tiffany is taking the vote, or taking to the podium, we're told. He's conceding this race in Wisconsin for governor. Early in life. My wife and I owned and operated our own business for 20 years before I ever got. I always viewed myself as a small business owner, and that's what I enjoyed the most. And we will see what the next chapter of life in life is. But I can tell you that I'm not one of those people that's going to leave Wisconsin. It's always been my home, and I don't seek to move somewhere else. And we'll see what the next chapter brings. Hey, I want to thank. All of you, once again, thank you to the media for covering our race here tonight. It's greatly appreciated, and let's go have some fun. Bitter defeat, but let's go have some fun. What do you say? You know, and Tom Tiffany was also, let's remind the viewers, he survived an emergency landing. On a lake, while he was campaigning, in a lake, had to swim to the shore to meet the rescuers. They were able to keep their phones dry and then jump out of the plane before it went underwater. But that was, you know, he was going from some campaign stops in the middle of this whole election process. So just looking at that, you can see how disappointed he is. Often we don't see that with candidates when they lose. They put on a brave face. He was. upset. I think I think this bothers him a lot. He says bitter defeat. Let's go have some fun. It felt like he was basically saying his political career has now ended. He said, I'm not going to leave the state of Wisconsin. This is my home. But this is this is the end. Yeah. Gave up his house. Yeah. Yeah. So that's interesting. There you see it on the big screen there. Seventy one percent of the votes tallied right now. David Crowley, the projected winner The winner as governor In the state of Wisconsin, which was a turbulent, turbulent campaign, him jumping in. So kind of at the last minute, last minute. Yeah. We do have some more numbers coming in from Minnesota, so we can take a look at some of the key races here. At the top of the ticket, we have the governor's race. We have Republican State House Speaker Lisa Dampier with 49.6% of the vote, still just 24% of estimated votes counted. And then we have Senator Amy Klobuchar with 48.7%. We'll get with Tim and Boyce in a little bit to see where those numbers are coming from. In this U.S. Senate race here in Minnesota, Michelle Tafoya, the Republican. Peggy Flanagan, the Democrat, much like the race for governor, this race also tightening up as we get more of those numbers in. About a quarter of the votes tallied in that one. Just to show you, we know we don't have any numbers from Hennepin County at this point because we don't have anything to report on the Hennepin County attorney's race. In the attorney general race here in Minnesota, Keith Ellison, the Democratic incumbent, Ron Schuets, the Republican challenger right now. Ron Schuets is winning with 53% to 47%. Again, about a quarter of the votes tallied in that race. Secretary of State Steve Simon, the incumbent candidate facing Republican Tad Jude. And with the numbers that we have, it's a very close race, about 48% of the vote for each. All right, and the state auditor's race here, Scott Jensen, the Republican, Zach Velupovich. Again, this race tightening up as well. Something dumped into this, the numbers dumped in with this 24% reporting because all of these races have now tightened up. To within two, three, maybe even five percentage points at the most. So it'll be interesting to watch these as they progress. Yeah, as then we go into southern Minnesota, the first congressional district. The Republican Brad Finstad, the incumbent, won this by a wide margin before. But he's facing Democrat Jake Johnson now. And we're wondering, will there be any impact? The polling has indicated this has been a competitive race, and there are a lot of issues in southern Minnesota as well with farmers and fuel prices and the impact of tariffs on farmers as well. And then the 2nd Congressional District in the South Metro, this is an open seat. Matt Little facing Eric Pratt. This was Angie Craig's seat. She left to go run for Senate, lost in the primary. And in that constitutional amendment here in Minnesota to modify the permanent school fund, 70% said yes, 25% said no. Again, about 24% of the votes tallied in that race thus far.