Life in a swing state for a presidential election means repeated visits from the candidates.
Wisconsin is a key battleground in the upcoming election for the next president of the United States and visits to America’s Dairyland have been plenty in recent weeks. The state will certainly continue to be on the candidates’ travel itinerary right up until the election on Nov. 5.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, made a stop with former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield on Monday night. It marked the second visit to Wisconsin by Harris in less than a week, following a rally in Green Bay last Thursday. Harris has also made recent stops in Milwaukee and La Crosse. Monday’s visit was her seventh to Wisconsin as a presidential candidate.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who has made multiple visits to Wisconsin, held a rally that drew hundreds of supporters to an airplane hangar at the Waukesha County Airport on Sunday evening.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, recently visited Wisconsin four times in eight days, which included his first-ever stop in Dane County, home to state’s liberal capital of Madison. He concluded with a rally at the Dodge County Airport in Juneau on Oct. 6. Trump was formally nominated to the be the Republican presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. Vance debuted as Trump’s running mate at the RNC.
Former President Barack Obama joined Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic VP nominee, for a rally Tuesday afternoon at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison. Walz was also scheduled to hold a rally in Racine on Tuesday night. The rallies coincided with the first day of early voting in Wisconsin.
Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz is planning to campaign in Green Bay on Friday, while Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, plans to travel to Kenosha on Thursday.
The latest Marquette Law School poll national survey, released Oct. 16, found that in the race for president, Harris was the choice of 48% and Republican former President Donald Trump was the choice of 47% among likely voters, with 4% saying they would vote for someone else and 1% who would not vote for president. With a margin of error of 4.7%, the national race is a virtual tossup.
Marquette will release the results of a new statewide survey with an in-person event featuring Charles Franklin, director of the poll, and Derek Mosley, director of Marquette’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education, on Oct. 30 at Eckstein Hall. Register at https://mulaw.wufoo.com/forms/qph4i271lkwsst/ to attend the event in person or virtually. The program is free and open to the public.
This will be the Marquette Law School Poll’s final survey of Wisconsin before the fall presidential election.
