Trump backers’ effort to recall Wisconsin GOP leader fails, but more challenges lie ahead

The effort to recall Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has failed, but another attempt from the same group is on the horizon.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission confirmed Wednesday that the pro-Trump group’s efforts to recall the Republican leader failed after the group did not gather enough signatures from Vos’s district to issue a recall election. Vos challenged the validity of the signatures, even finding his own on the recall attempt, because the group used previous legislative maps to gather signatures. 

“Not enough valid signatures were submitted from either old AD 63 or new AD 33 for the petition to be valid, and because Representative Vos was neither elected to new AD 66 nor lives within the territory of that district, staff do not believe that this petition could cause a recall election against representative Vos to be held regarding that territory,” WEC attorney Brandon Hunzicker wrote.

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