Letting Republicans depress the vote is ‘not in the cards’: a US governor on a race that may shape democracy

What happens in contests like the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, a critical battleground state, will have broad implications for US politics

Wisconsin's governor, Tony Evers, is not exactly known as a hotheaded partisan warrior - the softspoken Democrat enjoys polka, the card game Euchre, and a daily McDonald's Egg McMuffin. But it struck a nerve this week when he heard Robin Vos, the powerful speaker of the Wisconsin state assembly, claim there was widespread voter fraud in 2020.

He's one of the smartest people I've ever met but that was about the dumbest thing he's ever said," Evers told the Guardian on Thursday.