Leah Vukmir - WI GOP Endorsement

.@LeahVukmir is a proven conservative who can take on and defeat liberal Tammy Baldwin this November! pic.twitter.com/0AWfcfAIPm

— Wisconsin GOP (@wisgop) May 14, 2018

From The Hill:

Wisconsin state Sen. Leah Vukmir nabbed the endorsement of the state GOP convention on Saturday, giving her Senate primary campaign a boost.

Vukmir eclipsed the 60 percent threshold of convention delegates needed to secure the endorsement over Marine veteran Kevin Nicholson with 72 percent of the vote.

The victory does not secure her the GOP nomination, which will be decided by voters in August. But it gives her access to key party infrastructure — a boon in a state that has one of the more robust grass-roots operations — and it also serves as a useful fundraising and organizing tool.

...Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, a Wisconsin native, returned to the state Saturday to encourage delegates to back Vukmir in an effort to take on incumbent Democrat Baldwin in the fall.

“We don’t have to spend millions of dollars fighting each other, or allow millions of dollars from outside of Wisconsin to come in here and tear our candidates apart. We have a proven conservative, Christian, principled, Republican — lifelong, I might add — candidate right now who can actually beat liberal Tammy Baldwin. And her name is Leah Vukmir," he said. “There is no reason to make this Republican Party race for Senate complicated. Leah Vukmir did everything she said — never turned her back on the conservative movement. Leah Vukmir is everything we can ask for in a public servant.”

Nicholson’s camp, meanwhile, showed videos from Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Saturday ahead of the vote, with the conservative lawmakers stressing the Marine veteran's status as a political outsider.

I'm very happy about the Wisconsin's GOP endorsement.

Leah Vukmir is my choice to be the Republican nominee to challenge far-Left Democrat Tammy Baldwin. I'll be voting for her in the August primary.

Her record as a conservative and reformer are established. Although she has experience in politics, something that adds to her qualifications to be a U.S. senator, I don't think of her as a political insider. That term is reserved for swamp types. Vukmir will stand by her conservative principles. I don't think she'll buckle or be pulled under by pressure from swamp dwellers. I trust her. Moreover, I believe she stands the best chance of defeating Baldwin in November. I want Vukmir to represent me in the U.S. Senate.

If Kevin Nicholson wins the primary, I will vote for him and I'll encourage others to do so.

But the goal is to unseat Baldwin, and I hope Wisconsinites choose Vukmir as the candidate to do it. I think she can win.