Donald Trump Making the most of his day off from court this week.
With the judge in the former president’s first criminal trial using Wednesday to handle other matters, Trump is headed to two key states that could decide the winner of their 2024 rematch. President Biden,
Trump is making campaign stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, two key battleground states he captured by narrow margins in his 2016 presidential election victory but where he lost a re-election bid four years later.
This is the former president’s second visit to the two Great Lakes swing states in a month.
“Those two states are absolutely essential to both campaigns, with Pennsylvania being a close second,” said David Kochel, a longtime Republican strategist and presidential campaign veteran. “Those are two states where the Trump campaign should stay.”
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Former President Trump speaks at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Trump’s unexpected victory in michigan And with Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton broke the so-called “blue wall” of states that Democrats had been relying on for nearly a quarter century.
And Trump’s victories in all three states symbolize his ability to turn over blue-collar voters GOP hopes of a long-running electoral realignment in the so-called Rust Belt.
But four years later, Biden carried all three states as his party partially rebuilt the “blue wall.” And the Democrats won the gubernatorial election in Michigan that same year. and wisconsin — overturned Republican-held governors’ offices — and flipped a key Senate seat in Pennsylvania in 2022, crucial to maintaining his majority in the chamber.
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While they’re enjoying a winning streak, Democrats aren’t taking anything for granted. Several recent polls show that Trump has a slight lead over Biden in all three states.
Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes told Fox News, “It’s no surprise to anyone that Michigan and Wisconsin are key Midwest battleground states for November. President Trump is leading in both because of Biden’s failure and The weakness is felt in every town and city.”
Trump’s first stop on Wednesday is Waukesha, Wisconsin, about 20 miles west of downtown Milwaukee, where his campaign said the former president will “compare the peace, prosperity and security of his first term,” which they argue “Joe Biden failed the presidency.”
The former president is expected to shed light on rising prices, which have been a persistent problem for the Biden administration for three years, and the surge of migrants at the country’s southern border that has sent shockwaves across the country.
Former President Trump delivers a speech about crime and border security during a stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan on April 2, 2024. (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)
Trump will then hold a rally in the evening in Freeland, Michigan, about 120 miles north of Detroit. A month earlier, during his stay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump spoke out against “Biden’s massacre at the border.”
Hughes said that during his stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump will “demonstrate to the people of these states and the nation that he is ready to win and make America great again.”
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Biden has made several trips to Michigan and Wisconsin this year, and his campaign has a tremendous advantage in both states when it comes to organization and grassroots efforts.
“Trump goes to battleground states with no campaign infrastructure to speak of — while President Biden and the Democrats have 44 offices in Wisconsin and 30 in Michigan,” Biden’s campaign said in a statement. “Trump’s former minority outreach center in Milwaukee is becoming an ice cream shop.”
President Biden speaks at an event at the Truax campus of Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin on April 8, 2024. (AP)
But Biden’s support for Israel in its war with Hamas has strained support among Michigan’s large pool of Arab-American voters. And while the president enjoys strong union support, Trump has made inroads with some of the state’s autoworkers as he has repeatedly taken aim at Biden’s push for electric vehicles in the fight against climate change.
“There are a lot of opportunities for Trump in Michigan,” Kochel said. “I think Trump has made a very compelling argument for Biden trying to get his hands on EVs and drive away some of those autoworkers.”
While Trump has highlighted the increase in crime during the Biden administration in both states, he is facing attack from Democrats on the issue of abortion and over repeated unproven claims that his 2020 election loss was due to voter fraud.
Trump’s Republican allies attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in both states by pushing slates of fake electors.
Brianna Johnson, Biden campaign communications director in Wisconsin, said last week that Trump was in the Badger State to “do damage control on his record of taking away women’s freedoms and encouraging thousands of rioters to try to violently overturn the election.” Were coming in a desperate attempt.”
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