“Wisconsin is the quintessential swing state, but it’s also a very polarized state,” said Sheboygan Mayor Ryan Sorenson, who is supporting Crowley. In Los Angeles, democratic socialist Nithya Raman is challenging incumbent mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat. But Hong is different: A democratic socialist running not on deep-blue turf but in a true political battleground. “She has brought a coalition into the Democratic Party that otherwise had been shut out and told, ‘You don’t belong within this.’ In an effort to rally Democrats who are concerned about Hong, Crowley will campaign alongside Evers in the race’s closing days.