MADISON, Wis. — As the presidential race heats up, all eyes are on the battleground state of Wisconsin for candidates. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Green Bay on Tuesday night, and President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Madison next week.
For each candidate, getting basic voters to vote will be key to winning in states where the 2020 race was decided with less than 1% of the vote. For Biden, that means attacking Democratic strongholds Madison and Milwaukee, which he visited last month. The Biden campaign and Democrats also opened dozens of campaign offices in the state.
Trump's visit to Brown County, which he won in 2020, will be his first since the 2022 midterm elections, when he came to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels.
“Democrats' ground game in Wisconsin has gotten progressively stronger over the past two years. Donald Trump hasn't visited the state, so they've ceded some of an advantage on that front, but it's unlikely they'll recover.” It's still early enough,” said Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political communication.
Voters in Tuesday's statewide primary told TMJ4 at the polls that they were keen to stop campaigning.
“I think if you can hear them speak publicly, even if you have a chance to have them answer questions, it will be a great help to people, especially first-time voters like me,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison. said Eileen Perez, a student at the school. .
Visits by candidates and their representatives to Wisconsin are expected to become more frequent as November approaches.
“Some people in Wisconsin who live in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and parts of the state's rural areas may see more Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the fall of 2024 than they do their friends and neighbors. '' Wagner said.
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