Fox News projects Democrat Tammy Baldwin survives tight race to hold Wisconsin Senate seat
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The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Tammy Baldwin fended off a competitive challenge for her Senate seat from businessman Eric Hovde.
Baldwin will now serve a third term in the upper chamber after first being elected in 2012. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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The race in Wisconsin was considered particularly competitive given the expectation that the state would also be decisive in the presidential election. With the steep decline in split-ticket voting, a Senate candidate would have a much greater chance at winning if the presidential candidate also took the state.