Adam Fischer, Rebecca Kleefisch, Tim Michels, and Timothy Ramthun are running in the Republican primary for governor of Wisconsin on August 9, 2022. Kleefisch and Michels have received the most media attention and endorsements.
Kleefisch served as lieutenant governor under Gov. Scott Walker (R) from 2011 and 2019. Before that, she worked as a journalist in the Milwaukee area and started a marketing company. Kleefisch has focused her campaign on her experience in office during the Walker administration and said that she would reimplement several policies discontinued under Gov. Tony Evers (D). Walker, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.), 58 members of the state legislature, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R), and former White House Press…
