She’s a waitress raised on a farm – can Rebecca Cooke win a key Wisconsin seat?

Moderate Democrat believes she can unseat Republican Derrick Van Orden, who was at the Capitol on January 6

Wisconsin's third congressional district has voted for Donald Trump every time he's been on the ballot, but the moderate Democrat Rebecca Cooke, a waitress who grew up on a dairy farm, thinks she can flip the state's most competitive seat next year.

Last year, Cooke outperformed other Democrats when she tried to unseat incumbent Derrick Van Orden, a retired US Navy Seal who attended the January 6 Stop the Steal
" rally at the Capitol and shouted lies" during Joe Biden's 2024 state of the union address. She lost the race by less than three points.