You had to love message-sending Wisconsin primary voters last week. With the two major-party choices for President already been decided — Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump — some voters chose to throw shade on both candidates.
Sure, 79% of Republican presidential primary voters backed Trump’s bid for a second term. But 21% of them voted for four other candidates who had dropped out or cast “uninstructed” ballots that rejected all five of the party’s choices for president on Nov. 5.
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