MADISON, Wis. – Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips asked the state Supreme Court to overrule state election officials and put his name on the April primary ballot. Phillips, a Minnesota congressman running a long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden, was excluded by the state Election Commission. The Commission accepted only names forward by Biden-friendly state party bigwigs and legislators. Those names were rubber-stamped by the state Election Commission.
Wisconsin law
State law requires that all candidates be placed on the primary ballot if they are “generally advocated or recognized in the national news media throughout the United States on the ballot.” The law also permits parties see fit to put forward.