Republican challenger Eric Hovde officially conceded the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin to Democrat incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday.

In a video posted on social platform X, Hovde said that, despite “the last-minute absentee ballots that were dropped in Milwaukee at 4 a.m.,” he ultimately decided against requesting a recount because “without a detailed review of all the ballots and their legitimacy, which will be difficult to obtain in the courts, a request for a recount would serve no purpose, because you will just be recounting the same ballots, regardless of their integrity.”

The businessman said he did not wish to “add to political strife through a contentious recount” and so “decided to concede the election.”

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