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Democratic socialists’ much-anticipated iron-clad grip on the party in Wisconsin dissolved into thin air Tuesday night when David Crowley pulled off a stunning upset, defeating Francesca Hong for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Hong, the democratic socialist who had entered Tuesday as the odds-on front-runner for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin, was dealt a shocking defeat by a more moderate rival in a race widely watched as a gauge of progressive strength in a key swing state.

Late into Tuesday night, Hong, a chef and state lawmaker who has drawn enthusiastic support from the party’s left flank, found herself overtaken by Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, as six states held primary elections. Hong had entered Tuesday with polls showing her in a very safe double-digit lead. By early Wednesday morning, with 98% of the votes counted, Crowley had pulled off the improbable, defeating Hong by roughly 3,000 votes in one of the night’s biggest surprises.

An apparent glitch in the results of roughly 20,000 Democratic absentee ballots in Milwaukee County also threw a late-night wrench in news outlets’ ability to call the race. Five of nine flash-drive memory sticks holding absentee-election results had the required audit information but not the actual results. The drives then needed to be returned to the central count location to be corrected and brought back to the county courthouse, delaying election results by at least an hour. Election officials attributed the glitch to “human error” and said a wrong button was pushed.

When those Milwaukee absentee votes were counted, they favored Crowley by roughly 5 percentage points – a late surge that ultimately proved decisive in erasing Hong’s once-commanding advantage.

If a Wisconsin candidate is ahead by less than a quarter percentage point, the trailing candidate in such a scenario can demand a recount without being forced to pay for it.

“I know we don’t have the final results right now, but what I do know is that we are ready to keep fighting, and I feel confident,” Hong told supporters Tuesday night. “We are fighting to become once more what Wisconsin has always been – a place where our future is determined not by corporations and billionaires, but a future that’s determined by the working-class people who live here.”

With the result hanging in the balance after midnight, Crowley’s campaign sent supporters home........

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