Leading Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong once publicly claimed that the Senate should be abolished — but now a spokesperson says she never did. “Abolish the Senate,” Hong, an avowed socialist, said in 2021 in a reply to a tweet about the Senate from Qasim Rashid, a human rights lawyer. The socialist Democrat did not recall making her February 2021 post and has clarified this fact in recent media interviews, a Hong campaign spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the Wisconsin gubernatorial race as “toss up.” Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include comment from Hong’s campaign which was sent post-publication.