Rightwing effort to oust Wisconsin’s Republican assembly speaker fails

Maga activists launched a campaign in January to remove Robin Vos from his post, illustrating endurance of election denial in state

An effort by rightwing activists to recall Wisconsin’s powerful Republican assembly speaker Robin Vos appears to have failed.

The campaign, which was launched in January, was a long-shot attempt by Maga activists to squash their feud with the establishment-leaning assembly speaker by forcing him out of office. It wasn’t the first time the activists, who identify themselves as the “grassroots” of the Wisconsin Republican party, tried to remove him from office. Vos’s opponents challenged him in a primary in 2022 and came within 300 votes of winning.