Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump heads to Wisconsin, a battleground state that could decide the election, for a rally on Saturday as he tries to solidify support in a key part of his support base: working-class and rural whites.
Former President Donald Trump will hold his fourth Wisconsin rally this year at an airport near Wausau on Saturday.
A Trump rally in Wisconsin was briefly disrupted after an attendee fainted. Donald Trump stopped his speech as emergency medical personnel treated the person.
Whites without a college degree, long the linchpin of Trump's coalition, still favor the former president by 25 points, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump's message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term.
Trump was taking his economic message to the central Wisconsin city of Mosinee, with a population of about 4,500 people. It is within Wisconsin's mostly rural 7th Congressional District, a reliably Republican area in a purple state. Trump carried the county where Mosinee is located by 18 percentage points in both 2016 and 2020.
Western Wisconsin is a mostly rural, usually swingy, highly strategic region that is politically enticing to both Democrats and Republicans.
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With just days to go before his first — and likely only — debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump leaned into his familiar grievances about everything from his indictments to the border as he campaigned in one of the most deeply Republican swaths of battleground Wisconsin.
As Trump prepares to visit Wisconsin, FiveThirtyEight's poll tracker shows Harris is 3 points ahead in the battleground state.
Donald Trump held a rally on Saturday in Wisconsin, one of the key battleground states that may help determine the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. He visited the town of Mosinee as he worked to shore up his base, which includes working-class and rural dwellers.