Socialist Democrat and hater of traditional American holidays, Francesca Hong, stunned a lot of people after yesterday's primary election by losing after we'd been seeing polling like this:
Last 5 Wisconsin Governor Democratic Primary Polls
— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) August 12, 2026
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +22
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +18
Marquette University: 🔵 Hong +25
State Navigate: 🔵 Hong +29
Public Policy Polling: 🔵 Hong +20
Results (88% Reporting): 🟡Crowley +0.5 pic.twitter.com/FRqVIOiVT1
And then... Hong lost.
This also happened last night:
Francesca Hong was closing the gap with Absentee ballots… then she somehow loses the absentee vote in Milwaukee County after they had to fix a "Tabulation Error" pic.twitter.com/jjBUosh5Hq
— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) August 12, 2026
NBC News decided to try and wait out the delay for the final results.
They waited...
And waited...
🔥🚨 AWKWARD — NBC ended its live coverage of the Wisconsin Democratic primary as Milwaukee County officials announced a “tabulation error" in the election data.
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) August 12, 2026
Five of nine USB sticks with the absentee ballot results contained only audit logs rather than the actual vote… pic.twitter.com/cWjh3uTYSG
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"Tabulation error." Alrighty then.
The most awkward 3.5 minutes of live air in NBC News history pic.twitter.com/KwMq05pkdT
— Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) August 12, 2026
We won't hold our breath waiting for NBC News journos to now investigate exactly why that "error" occurred.
“Tabulation error” pic.twitter.com/FAUO0LoUAR
— Humanfiles Media (@HumanfilesMedia) August 12, 2026
Maybe Bernie Sanders saw it coming since he declined to endorse his fellow traveler socialist in this particular race.
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