Abraham Gloria, 40, who works for a plastics manufacturer, said he skipped voting four years ago. But this year, he was determined to support Mr. Michels because he was upset with Mr. Evers. “I just want to get him out,” Mr. Gloria said. “He could have stopped what happened with the riots, and he didn’t.”
Michael Mack, 61, a bartender who considers himself an independent, called the rioting in 2020 “the darkest time this city’s ever had” and said many here held Mr. Evers responsible.
“Politics is personal,” he said. “Evers didn’t act quickly enough to help us.” (The Kenosha County sheriff, David Beth, has defended Mr. Evers, saying that the governor provided all the resources that local officials requested.)