Wisconsin Democrats will decide Tuesday whether to entrust their bid to hold the governor’s mansion to socialist Francesca Hong, putting the progressive movement’s growing strength to its most consequential battleground test yet.

Hong, a 37-year-old state representative from Madison, heads into the Democratic gubernatorial primary as the candidate to beat after an improbable ascent that has alarmed some establishment Democrats.

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