Wisconsin governor race: Early in-person voting underway

By the way, the November election is two weeks away. Early in-person voting is underway right now, and the race for governor headlines the ballot that will also feature federal, statewide, and local races and referendums. Yeah, we're off. Early in-person absentee voting, it's open through November 1st. Milwaukee has 11 early voting sites, including the Zeidler Municipal Building. Voting there is open from 9 to 5. The earliest voters showed up around 7 in the morning. They got ahead of the long lines. I've watched on TV other places that have had early votes that have very long lines, and I definitely don't want to be involved in a very long line. That's why I vote early so on November 3rd I won't be in that very long line because I know people are going to vote this time. Well done. Staff say, hey, just a reminder, you've got to bring a valid photo ID with you to vote. If you need to register or if you need to update your information, no worries you can do that through october 30th or again you can always do it on election day you might just find a long line though so be aware of that with early voting kicking off the ads they're flooding your screens control of congress is on the line and today candidates in one competitive district had a debate jason calvi is here with what to know hey guys yeah so much is on the line democrats and republicans disagree on so much you watch wisconsin's first congressional district to get a sample. It includes all of Racine and Kenosha counties and reaches west to Janesville and Beloit and then it includes some of Rock and Milwaukee counties. It's been held by Republicans since 1995 including current incumbent Brian Stile. Before him it was former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. WCLO radio in Janesville hosted the only debate between Stile and his competitor Mitchell Berman. It was live on air and online. The candidates sparred over what to do on a number of issues for voters, including that number one issue on the top of their minds, the cost of living. They fought over the cost of living, elections, immigration, and social security. And here's their fight over what Republicans called the big beautiful bill, which put new restrictions and cuts on Medicaid. So this is going to affect us all across the board. This is going to lead to worse patient outcomes. This is going to lead to people losing their lives. That's what's at risk here. So I think we need to make sure we fully fund Medicaid. We restore those ACA subsidies so people can be able to afford insurance. And we offer a government option to give people the opportunity to buy in and drive down costs. My opponent knows that Medicaid funding for the state of Wisconsin increased by a billion dollars. He knows it increased by a billion dollars. He wants to fear monger and scare people who are listening. Increasing the funding by a billion dollars. When you're looking at a loss. But you admitted increase by a billion dollars. When you're looking at a loss of more than that is what we call in the ER putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole. That is not going to cover the gap in loss of coverage that people are going to be seeing. And that is not going to be able to keep services available for people in our hospitals. So we agree to increase by a billion dollars. So forecasters at both the Cook Political Report and the University of Virginia's Crystal Ball originally estimated that this race was likely to go to Republicans but those two forecasters now moved it to more of a question saying it leans Republican that means this race will help decide who controls Congress Democrats versus Republicans so much is on the line Ben yeah a lot of people think it might be in play now all right Jason then Thank you.