Liberal Chris Taylor cruised to an easy victory over her conservative opponent in the Supreme Court race, expanding a liberal majority to 5-2.

Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

Democrat Mandela Barnes, who served four years as Wisconsin's lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid, jumped into the battleground state’s open race for governor on Tuesday. Given his prominent name recognition and statewide funding network, Barnes enters the 2026 race as the presumptive front-runner in a crowded primary of lesser known candidates who have no built-in network of support. Wisconsin is a politically divided state that elected President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024 and President Joe Biden in 2020.