Wisconsin Republican leader who angered Trump targeted for recall a second time

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to force a recall election targeting Wisconsin’s top elected Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, said Tuesday they have enough signatures after their first effort came up short.

They targeted Vos, the longest-serving Assembly speaker in Wisconsin history, after he refused to impeach the official who oversees the battleground state’s elections, angering Trump and his followers.

Whether there are enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election will be up to the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission to determine. The panel rejected the first attempt for not having enough valid signatures.

Petition circulators said they would submit more than 8,000 signatures collected from voters in the district Vos was elected to serve most recently in 2022. They need 6,850 valid signatures to force a recall election.

In March, the group submitted more than 9,000 signatures but of those the elections commission determined that only 5,905 were valid, falling short of the number needed to call an election.

The commission asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to clarify whether any recall election should take place in the district Vos was election to serve or under new district boundary lines that take effect for the regular November election.

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