As her race against Republican challenger Eric Hovde tightens, with Cook Political Report projecting a toss-up in November, U.S.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is fielding attacks over her support for LGBTQ rights. Two recent ads run by the Senate Leadership Fund, a superPAC that works to elect Republicans to the chamber, take aim at her support for gender affirming care and an LGBTQ center in Wisconsin.
Baldwin was the first openly LGBTQ candidate elected to the Senate. The first ad concerns her statement of support for Wisconsin Gov.
Tony Evers’s veto of a Republican-led bill to ban medically necessary healthcare interventions for transgender youth in the state.