MADISON, Wis. – The electorate of the changing state has to go through many things, even the most unequal presidential crusades. Radio waves were flooded with crusader ads. Customers are invaded by national informants in search of the best unsafe white man, and an avalanche of phone calls from pollsters and pranksters.
But it’s 2020, so Wisconsin’s electorate is also facing out-of-control coronavirus epidemics after months of fierce struggles between republican state leaders and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers even for the ultimate guarantee of trivial public aptitude.
A few days before the presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden has a small advantage over President Donald Trump in a state that the president won with just over 20,000 votes in 2016 and talks with the local electorate and political observers infuriate Trump. coVID-19 pandemic fuels this small advantage.
“COVID has had a massive effect here in Wisconsin and in the county I live in. I just bought a farm and I’m having trouble feeding my animals and keeping the farm in good condition,” Teri Leschner, 50, of Sharon, told the Daily Beast.
Leschner was one of many voters who told the Daily Beast that they voted for Trump in 2016 but were unable to do so this time, largely because of the pandemic and the resulting economic collapse. “I think Trump lied to us all,” he said. He said he cared about the small circle of family farmers, but we didn’t see any help or compassion. “
Dusty Hartl of 24-year-old West Allis told the Daily Beast that, despite his support for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, he voted for Trump in 2016 because he believed Trump was the “only candidate who didn’t pontificated things as usual. “He also said his parents and a prolonged circle of relatives voted for Trump. “It was a safer option,” he says.
Residents have had many more than 4 years to suffer the consequences of what state-besieged Democrats have long described as a hard-handed minority government and a government founded on despite. After Scott Walker was elected governor in 2010, he and his allies in the state’s Subtle Senate and Assembly tactics that Trump and national Republican leaders say will lead them to some other victory in the state. Walker and the REPUBLICAN Party have reduced early voting times, extended residency needs, and added voter identity needs, a strategy that repeats itself in Trump’s rhetoric and legality. demanding situations this year.
But Wisconsin Republicans also passed a series of laws, a lame duck consultation in 2018 that stripped Evers of many of its executive powers, which, along with discontent with the president’s reaction nationwide, turns out to galvanize negative reactions in a crisis state. Just this week, the Wisconsin Badgers had to cancel their Nebraska-opposed football game due to a COVID-19 outbreak that hit the quarterback and the team’s head coach. And based on the number of cases, the state will run out of extensive care beds and nurses needed to staff them in as little as two weeks.
“Approximately 3/4 of the Obama-Trump electorate we interviewed in the Upper Midwest for the Swing Voter Project will remain with President Trump,” Rich Thau, president of Engagious and moderator of the Swing Voter Project, an organization that conducts monthly focus teams on key states, told the Daily Beast in an email. “Of the remaining room biden will be, the maximum will be based on dissatisfaction with the management of the pandemic president, not a specific affection for Biden himself. “
Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 with just 22,748 votes, less than a point.
It’s no exaggeration to say that a winter in Wisconsin without a circle of family reunions, school, hunting and ice fishing, and stereotypical rates like the scorn parties at Lambeau Field will absorb a lot of what makes the long months of icy temperatures and darkness bearable. announced a $47 million investment under the CARES Assistance Systems Act on October 5, but this will not be enough to meet existing needs. Without increased stimulus investment from the federal government, low-income citizens will struggle to receive heating, food, and physical care. and small businesses are unlikely to survive the winter.
Leschner, who has been growing for 20 years, is worried about how she will survive. “I probably wouldn’t lose my farm, but I’ll be seriously indebted when borrowing money from friends. They continue to play with this stimulus, and that plays in our minds, ” he said.
Among the many other reasons why the electorate distrusts Trump this year: taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn’s debacle that received billions of dollars in tax subsidies to build a plant in Mount Pleasant, in exchange for 13,000 alleged jobs and financial providence for the state. he attended the opening of the plant in 2018, where he called it “the eighth wonder of the world”. Foxconn founder Terry Gou said he remained committed to the Wisconsin deal plan, yet dozens of homes were destroyed, millions of dollars were spent to get land and build roads and infrastructure, and no one can obviously say what the investment company might look like in the end.
Trump is not the only one to blame for the staggering number of new COVID-19 cases in the state. A review of WisPolitics. com, a state policy news site, named the Wisconsin Legislature the least active full-time framework in the United States in early October, and has not passed a bill since April, the highest commonly is the pandemic. But Republican legislative leaders Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald have had time to help in legal situations demanding the surveillance of the Evers house, to hide the mandates and limits of Marquette Law School’s recent maximum vote found that 50% of citizens disapproved of the way the state legislature was doing its job , while only 36% approved it, a 10% delay since May.
“In Wisconsin, there would possibly be an inverted ponytail effect: others who are dissatisfied with the Republican-dominated state legislature’s refusal to strict adequacy measures would possibly be driven to be counterproductive to Trump, as the legislature has regained its rhetoric as genuine policies on the floor. “Howard Schweber, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Daily Beast . . .
For her part, Leschner said that “state government is a vital factor” for her. Similarly, Hartl said Trump’s attitude toward the pandemic, a take on power through the state’s Republican Party, frustrated him and left him frightened by vulnerable members of his Republican circle of relatives in the state.
“Why doesn’t my 70-year-old grandmother stick to science?”Asked.
At the end of the day, there are fewer electorates who are not sure than in the past. More than 1. 5 million people have already cast their votes in Wisconsin as a user and through absentee voting, or about a portion of the state total in 2016.
Hartl told the Daily Beast that “it’s a no-brainer” to replace his vote in this election. He has only controlled to convince one member of the family circle, his paternal grandmother, to move from Trump to Biden, but he is proud of his success.
“Now she yells at him every time she sees him on TV,” she says.
This article is supported by draft reports on economic difficulties.