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APPLETON, Wis.- Seeking to divert attention from the democratic National Convention scheduled for Milwaukee, President Donald Trump travels Monday to the state of the Wisconsin battlefield where he will face a familiar enemy: a Republican-leaning suburban who overwhelmingly disapproves of him and his handling of the coronavirus.
Trump won Wisconsin with fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016; lately he is behind former Vice President Joe Biden on five percent issues among the state’s most likely electorate and plans to attack Biden’s economic “failures” at a reduced crusade rally in an aircraft hangar., just south of Green Bay in northeastern Wisconsin.
The critical region, such as Fox River Valley, experienced a viral outbreak around meat processing plants in April.
Despite pre-aspectnt’s claims that the “suburban housewife” is on her side and that Biden will “destroy the suburbs,” Trump is Biden through 20 problems among Wisconsin’s suburban women.
“I’m not on his side,” said Erin Argall, 39, of Appleton. He voted for Trump in 2016 but now plans to vote for Biden. “I mean, I have a job, but I’m the ultimate typical housewife. In the suburbs, white, rich, little kids, my husband has a smart job. We don’t vote for him,” she said.
The president’s visit to Wisconsin, the time for a change in Minnesota, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, all states where biden follows in the polls, comes as his approval among women in the country’s suburbs continues to decline.Biden also largely removed Trump’s merit.among white voters, which led Trump to victory in 2016, according to a recent PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
Argall, a longtime Christian and Republican who has gone through the president’s insults, attacks on his enemies, and rhetoric against women, described the president’s handling of coronavirus as “erratic” and a failure of leadership.
“I shudder when I hear him report that it doesn’t make sense,” he said, noting that the president went on to say that the virus will “disappear.”
“And now we’ve lost thousands and thousands of lives,” Argall said.Just over 1,000 people died in Wisconsin as a result of COVID-19, which killed more than 167,000 people nationwide.
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Perhaps most importantly, Argall said, is that Biden is more provided to pull the country out of the existing economic crisis, a small blow to the president’s planned message for the Wisconsin residents on Monday, a slight majority of Wisconsin’s electorate approves the president’s management.economy.
But Trump still enjoys deep in the state’s most politically divided region.Appleton’s 62-year-old Mary Brock said the president was treating the virus as productively as possible.
“Everyone should blame Trump, but I don’t know how much I accept as true with Fauci,” he said, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist whom Trump has infrequently criticized for contradicting him.
Officials on the GoP and Trump crusade recognize that any depressed involvement in the conservative northeast of the state threatens Trump’s chances in Wisconsin, especially after Democrats led voter turnout in the region to overturn a seat on the state Supreme Court this year and hold a seat in the U.S. Senate.More than a dozen locals who voted for Trump in 2016 said in recent interviews that they are recently undecided.
“Wisconsin is so balanced that wherever you lose voters, it’s a risk,” goP strata Brian Reisinger said.
Democrats have criticized the president’s vacation in Wisconsin and say Biden is considering fitness by not visiting the DNC state.
“It will have to be an unhappy position for an outgoing president to react so desperately and recklessly,” said Wisconsin Deputy Governor Mandela Barnes, a Democrat.
But Trump’s advisers expect cases of viruses to drop before November and polls to tighten, though the White House warned governors in personal calls about imaginable increases in the Midwest, home to some of the most critical states on the battlefield.
“Unlike Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton four years ago, President Trump will never snub Wisconsin,” said Steve Cortes, senior adviser to the Trump campaign.”He goes there to prove that he is a commander-in-chief who works to build our wonderful American renewal.”
Marcia Steele is president of the Winnebago County Democratic Party, which includes the trump rally site Monday.She is also an urgent care nurse who has noticed cases of COVID-19 in the region.”If you have a giant crowd,” Steele said of Trump’s event in Oshkosh, “you’ll most likely catch them in 12 to 14 days.”
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