Wisconsin WI-03 House2018

Initially, Republicans were excited about targeting Kind in 2018. After all, Kind went unopposed in 2016 while Donald Trump carried this rural western Wisconsin district 49 percent to 44 percent, a surprising result because Republicans had redrawn this seat in 2011 to include as many Democratic towns as possible. But that enthusiasm has subsided with the prospect of a Democratic wave.

Republicans are poised to nominate retired Army Colonel Steve Toft, who had $103,000 in the bank to Kind's $2.9 million at the end of March. Toft criticizes Kind's response to the Tomah VA hospital scandal as insufficient and might make a strong opponent to Kind in a better year for Republicans, but probably not in 2018. Kind's brand as a self-styled moderate "New Democrat" has played well here since 1996 and helped him survive the 2010 wave.

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