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Capitol Notes: More Dustups in Wisconsin's GOP Senate Race

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson caused a stir last week, when he refused to apologize for remarks he made regarding veterans who support the Democratic Party.  A group of Republican veterans demanded an apology, after Nicholson told a local radio host he doesn't understand the "cognitive thought process" of democratic veterans.  

Nicholson is a former Marine who's running against state Sen. Leah Vukmir in a Republican primary in August.  The winner will face Democratic Incumbent Tammy Baldwin in November.  Nicholson is also a past president of the College Democrats of America.  In this week's "Capitol Notes" conversation, Marti Mikkelson asked JR Ross of wispolitics.com, what he makes of all this.

Marti was a reporter with WUWM from 1999 to 2021.