Day after day, Trump travels to Wisconsin, a crucial battleground state.

TFD – Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in Wisconsin just south of Milwaukee, days after reportedly calling the city “horrible.” This comes as Milwaukee prepares to host the Republican national convention, where Trump is expected to be nominated for a third time in eight years.

In one of the most important battleground states in the nation, former President Donald Trump will hold a rally with his fans just south of Milwaukee, days after he was alleged to have called the city “horrible” in private.

Trump’s gathering Tuesday is less than a month away from Republicans’ national convention in Milwaukee, when they will nominate the former president for a third time in the previous eight years. According to a person there, Trump called the location his party had selected to hold the convention “horrible” during a meeting with House Republicans last week on Capitol Hill.

The Trump team refuted several of the popular interpretations of the purported comment, claiming that he was making references to “voter fraud” and crime. As word spread about his purported remark throughout the Badger State, Trump emphasized to a reporter for Fox News that he “loves Milwaukee.” I have wonderful friends in Milwaukee,” I said, going on to criticize the city’s handling of elections and violence.

Milwaukee has more voters than any other city in the state and is the epicenter of Democratic power in Wisconsin, along with Madison, the state capital. Milwaukee produced one out of every five votes cast for Joe Biden during his razor-thin victory in Wisconsin in 2020.

Last week, Cavalier Johnson, the Democratic mayor of the city, told CNN’s Laura Coates that Trump’s purported comment might turn out to be a tactical misstep.

Johnson stated, “That may ultimately cost Donald Trump the election in a state that’s decided on a razor’s edge.

In an attempt to use the incident to their advantage, Democrats have mobilized support for Biden in the state’s largest city.

The DNC announced on Friday that it has placed ten billboards with Trump’s purported comment throughout Milwaukee. T-shirts and stickers with Milwaukee on a Wisconsin outline and the phrase “(Not) a Horrible City” are now being sold by the Biden campaign.

On social media on Thursday, Biden shared a photo of himself with the Milwaukee Bucks during the team’s 2021 NBA championship victory and wrote, “I happen to love Milwaukee.

a concentration on crime

Trump’s successful 2016 White House campaign was largely built on his focus on major city crime, with Milwaukee serving as the face of his “law and order” campaign against urban violence.

The violence, rioting, and damage that have occurred in Milwaukee are an attack on everyone’s right to live in safety and peace, Trump declared to a suburban audience during an event held not far from the city that year.

Although Trump was far from victorious in Milwaukee, he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the neighboring suburban counties, which have grown to be significant in Wisconsin’s statewide elections. Because of his achievements, he was able to become Wisconsin’s first Republican presidential nominee since 1988.

During the 2020 election, Biden and Trump both actively campaigned for Wisconsinites’ support; in the end, Biden won the state by less than half a point.

Trump has once again made crime a major campaign issue this year. When the Trump campaign announced the trip to Racine, they said Milwaukee was “experiencing the biggest increase in shootings in the country” and attributed “spiked crime across Wisconsin” to Biden’s police.

However, less than 1% of registered voters in Wisconsin who participated in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll stated that crime is their top concern when considering their presidential selections. The FBI reported earlier this month that murder rates are down countrywide and that violent crime has decreased this year.

Trump’s visit to Racine is his second visit to southeast Wisconsin in less than two months, highlighting the region’s significance in the coming conflict. Biden has visited the same region of Wisconsin on two of his four visits there this year.

Among them was an official White House visit to Racine, which is located just 20 minutes away from the location of Trump’s event on Tuesday. While there, Biden gave a speech at the same location where his predecessor had once pushed a failed investment by the massive Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn.

Biden stated, “Foxconn proved to be just that—a con.” “It makes sense.”