Harris, Trump hold dueling final rallies on crucial ‘blue wall’ battleground

MILWAUKEE — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump will hold competing rallies around the same time Friday night just a few miles apart in the battleground state of Wisconsin’s largest city.

With just four days until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates make their final stop in Wisconsin, where nearly all of the latest public opinion polls indicate a margin of error race between the two candidates.

“As of this weekend, the way to predict the winner is to flip a coin. It’s that close,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor emeritus Mordecai Lee told Fox News.

Two days after Harris and Trump held competing rallies in Wisconsin — the vice president stopped in Madison, the state capital, while the former president was in Green Bay — they will hold dueling rallies again, this time in the same city.

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Trump’s event will take place at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, where he accepted his party’s presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention in July. Harris will be a few miles away for a get-out-the-vote rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center.

The former president will arrive in Wisconsin from Michigan, another key battleground, where he held campaign events earlier on Friday.

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Harris’ Milwaukee rally — where popular rapper and songwriter Cardi B will also make remarks — will be her third Wisconsin event of the day. She stopped by a union in Janesville during the afternoon.

When a group of union members began chanting “Ma’am President,” Harris responded, saying, “Not yet! Four days.”

The vice president also argued that “Donald Trump has not been a friend to work with.”

The vice president then went to Appleton to conduct an assembly at a school.

The Democratic and Republican vice presidential candidates — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, respectively — have both crossed Wisconsin, and major surrogates — including former Presidents Obama and Clinton for Harris — have parachuted into the Badger State.

Both campaigns and their combined committees and super PACs have also flooded the Wisconsin airwaves with television ads in the final stretch leading up to Election Day next week.

Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “blue wall”.

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Democrats reliably won all three states for a quarter of a century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the White House.

Four years later, in 2020, President Biden swept all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democratic column and defeat Trump. In Wisconsin, Biden carried the state by just over 20,000 votes out of more than 3.2 million cast.

With a race within the margins, it could likely come down to turnout in Wisconsin.

The Harris campaign highlights that they have over 50 offices across 43 counties in the state and 250 full-time coordinated staff on the ground.

They focus on the fact that they have knocked on more than 1.5 million doors in the battle for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes.

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The Trump campaign, pointing to the pro-football rivalry between Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers and neighboring Minnesota’s Vikings, took aim at the vice president.

“Kamala Harris doesn’t know the first thing about Wisconsin — she chose a Vikings fan as her running mate. Wisconsin voters are already rallying for President Trump, as evidenced by his lead in the polls, encouraging early voter turnout and heavy support from hometown favorites , including Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued in a statement to Fox News.

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Lee, who has been involved in Wisconsin politics for nearly five decades, pointed to all the attention his home state is receiving.

“We feel like we’re the ones who have to choose the next president,” he said.

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