Mike Hernandez: On Elections (Aug. 12, 2026)
Compiled With Commentary By Mike Hernandez
August 12: Breitbart By John Nolte
Nolte: Francesca ‘Thanksgiving Sucks’ Hong And Pollsters Humiliated In Wisconsin Upset
Communist Francesca Hong, the Democrat frontrunner in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, lost Tuesday night in a major upset for her and yet another massive humiliation for America’s utterly useless polling institution.
- +18 – August 5
- +22 – July 27
- +20 – July 22
- +13 – July 20
- +11 – July 16
Those are the leads Hong held in the five most recent polls out of Wisconsin, where she just lost by almost half a point, 39.4 to 39.8 percent. Hong, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2020, opposes Thanksgiving, wants the U.S. Senate and ICE abolished, intended to kill off Wisconsin’s school choice program, admitted to having a bipolar disorder, and called the police (she wants to abolish) twice over what she thought was a pro-Israel display.
If you look at the polling dates above, the pollsters’ one mistake was to stop polling a week and two weeks before Election Day under the assumption the race was over. Hong likely was ahead by double digits when those polls were taken. But by assuming the race was over, the pollsters missed the bottom dropping out of her campaign in the final two weeks of the campaign as she opened and reopened her mouth.
Pollsters made the same mistake during the 1948 presidential election. In poll after poll, Republican Thomas Dewey was so far ahead of incumbent Democrat Harry Truman, the polling stopped weeks before Election Day. Then Truman surged to victory, and that famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” photo was born.
(Editor’s Note: The Wisconsin gubernatorial race shows that Democrats may be having reservations about going communist or socialist in their campaigns. Also, it shows that polling in America can be “totally inaccurate” as voters lie or mislead pollsters about who they want to win.)
Aug. 12: Fox6 By Stephanie Quirk
Wisconsin Election: “Human Error” Delays Milwaukee Count
Results in Milwaukee County are counted at the county courthouse, where election officials did not finish tallying up the results until Wednesday morning. It all comes down to somebody pushing the wrong button, according to Milwaukee Election Commission Director Paulina Gutierrez.
Around midnight, election officials announced five of nine memory sticks delivered to the Milwaukee County Courthouse did not actually have election results on them. Instead, they had audit logs downloaded to them. Gutierrez said it was not the machines that caused the issues, but the memory sticks used to download the results. Someone pushed the wrong button.
Officials said they had to go back to Milwaukee’s central count location to re-download the results from five machines before returning to the courthouse, the county’s central count location, to finish tallying up the results.
Just after 1 a.m., Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson announced the results for Milwaukee. David Crowley finished with 65,131 votes, which is 43.04%, and Francesca Hong finished with 62,739 votes, or 41.46%, in Milwaukee.
(Editor’s Note: The Milwaukee County elections only point to voters believing that not only Wisconsin but America’s elections are “banana republic” elections due to a lack of clean voter rolls, no voter identification required, and miscues that happen late into the election night that surprise voters the next day. We need to go to one-day voting, voter identification and no mailed ballots to win the confidence of America’s voters again.)
Aug. 12: Red State By Teri Christoph
Game On: Michele Tafoya Crushes Minnesota GOP Primary—And Dems Hand Her A Far-Left Lunatic To Run Against
All eyes may have been on Wisconsin Tuesday night watching socialist darling Francesca Hong go down in flames to David Crowley in the Democrat gubernatorial primary, but something interesting was also taking place in neighboring Minnesota.
Michele Tafoya, the Emmy-winning NFL sideline reporter who walked away from her NBC Sports gig in 2022 to pursue a life outside of sports broadcasting, defeated a large field of candidates to nab the Republican nomination in the Minnesota Senate primary. (And although Tafoya has earned the endorsement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), President Trump did not endorse in the Minnesota primary.)
Tafoya bested former Navy SEAL and Marine Adam Schwarze, who was endorsed by the Republican Party of Minnesota, by a margin of 53.1 percent to 24.0 percent. She thanked the Minnesotans for coming out to vote for her on Tuesday, promising to “bring common sense back to Washington, fight fraud, hold those responsible accountable, and win in November.”
Tafoya is already well-regarded in conservative circles for being the rare sane person to emerge from the world of sports, and she’s going to need all the reinforcements she can get to take on the lunatic that won on the Democrat side: current Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
Tafoya, for her part, is running on a pretty straightforward agenda: cracking down on the massive fraud that has plagued Minnesota, securing the border, restoring some fiscal sanity in Washington, and protecting girls’ sports. All good stuff.
(Editor’s Note: It is time to vote for “common sense” in the Minnesota senatorial campaign: no more massive fraud, secure the border, restore fiscal sanity and protect girl’s sports.)
Aug. 12: Gateway Pundit By Grant Stinchfield
Democrats Embrace Socialism As Their Presidential Bench Collapses
The Democrat Party is not in crisis. It’s not fighting a civil war. It’s becoming exactly what it has spent years telling us it is: a big tent where socialism isn’t the fringe anymore. It’s the future.
Socialist candidates are no longer insurgents trying to overthrow the Democrat establishment. Elected Democrats are embracing them. The radicals didn’t hijack the party. The party welcomed them in, handed them a microphone, and called them mainstream.
And Democrats have another massive problem: 2028. When Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are your front-runners for president, you stand no chance of winning. This is the Democrat bench. Four candidates are carrying the same failed ideology that has driven the party further and further left…each one could be a disaster at the ballot box.
(Editor’s Note: While Democrats embrace socialism–Americans are showing that this ideology is not wanted by the majority of Americans. We don’t want socialists nor communists in office.)
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(Editor’s Note: Mike Hernandez, is founder/publisher/editor of https://calirednews.com/. He is the co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “Mike Hernandez: On The News” posted on https://calirednews.com/ and “Prayer Over News Daily” posted on https://mikehernandezmedia.com/. Mr. Hernandez mentors/trains citizen journalists across the nation from California to Florida. His e-book on “Citizen Journalism: How To Report, Write, And Publish Local News Like A Pro” will be released in September, 2026. He has written stories that have been picked up by nationwide news platforms. Mike Hernandez is dedicated to advancing truth, service, and hope through Mission News Service.)