Wisconsin Senatorial Race Just Doubled Down On Weirdness

Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that California banker Eric Hovde, who is playing the part of a mail order senatorial candidate for Wisconsin Republicans, is now feeling pressure from the right and that he just might not be the weirdest candidate anymore in that race..

A third candidate for the senatorial race is one Thomas Leager, who is running for the America First Party. Leager is a MAGAt's MAGAt. Among Leager's many claims to infamy include being a former lobbyist for a gun nuts group, championing Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and actively leading a movement to not save lives during the COVID pandemic.

But there's more. There's always more:

Among other things, Leager is calling for abolishing the FBI, closing the borders, eliminating the federal income tax, halting all foreign aid until the U.S. debt is under $100 million, passing a constitutional amendment recognizing fetuses as legal persons, bringing troops home and protecting children from "radical gender theory."

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