Trump and Harris will both visit Milwaukee

It was absentee voting from Milwaukeewhich are usually reported early the morning after Election Day, foreshadowing Wisconsin’s presidential candidacy. Joe Biden in 2020.

Democrats know they will have to turn out voters in Milwaukee, which also has the state’s largest black population, to counter Trump’s support in suburban and rural areas. Harris hopes to replicate and surpass 2020 turnout in a city where 79% voted for Biden that year.

Trump is trying to close the Democratic lead. DeLeon called it a “lose less” mentality.

Before heading to Milwaukee, Harris campaigned in the southern Wisconsin city of Janesville, where she announced her support for unions in a speech to the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

“No one understands better than a union member that we as Americans rise and fall together,” Harris said. She promised to eliminate “unnecessary” degree requirements for federal jobs and push private sector employers to do the same.

She called Trump “an existential threat to America’s labor movement.”

Harris said Trump is “one of the biggest losers of industrial jobs in American history,” fixating on the word “loser” as she was surrounded by union workers wearing bright yellow T-shirts.

Trump, whose base includes working-class voters, has made occasional efforts to reach out to rank-and-file union members, who have traditionally formed the core of the Democratic coalition.

Trump was in the Detroit area, where he stopped at a restaurant in Dearborn, the country’s largest Arab-majority city, to meet with supporters. Many in the public remain distrustful of him after his first act as president in 2017 was to sign an executive order effectively banning travel to the predominantly Muslim country.

“We’re finishing up. We’ve been doing this for nine years, and now we’re winding down,” Trump said later at the start of a rally in Warren, Michigan. “And hopefully we will move on to the next phase that will change our country.”

In Milwaukee, many Democrats are “worried and cautiously optimistic,” said Angela Lang, founder and executive director of the Black Leaders Organization for Communities in Milwaukee.

“Especially given 2016, where there wasn’t as much energy, I think it’s clear that Democrats have learned lessons about the importance of Milwaukee and Wisconsin as a whole,” she said.

In another belated outreach campaign aimed at black voters, former President Bill Clinton campaigned with local faith leaders Thursday night at a center celebrating African-American music and the arts in Milwaukee.