Francesca Hong, a Wisconsin state assemblywoman and Democratic candidate for governor, addresses supporters at her primary election night watch party in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. Hong was supposed to prove that a democratic socialist could win a statewide election. Instead, her surprise loss in the primary election for governor of Wisconsin dealt a blow to the progressive movement and initiated a scramble among Democratic factions to define her narrow defeat either as an…
