Wisconsin has drawn extra attention in the early efforts of the 2024 presidential election, especially as the state will host the Republican National Committee’s first primary debate on Wednesday and the 2024 RNC Convention.
Wisconsin, a battleground state, went to Donald Trump in 2016 but swung for Joe Biden in 2020.
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The state is expected to play a large role in the 2024 election, especially if it is a rematch between Biden and Trump, which appears to be the most likely scenario.
The RNC debate will take place in Milwaukee on Wednesday evening, and despite Trump’s absence, he is expected to dominate the debate stage, according to Fox News’s moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, as well as Trump’s campaign.
The former president said he would not attend, but Biden’s campaign made it clear it would be present in Milwaukee. Ahead of the event, Biden’s team is launching its third major ad buy — specifically targeting black and Hispanic communities. The paid media investment cost a reported $25 million and is running in seven states, including Wisconsin. Further, the president’s broad surrogate network has been blitzing media at all levels, including locally in Wisconsin, contrasting his message with what is expected at the debate.
The Democratic National Committee has also purchased billboards around Milwaukee, which will showcase Biden’s record and contrast it with the “MAGA agenda.”
Wisconsin’s importance was further signaled by Biden’s recent visit, during which he discussed his economic agenda dubbed “Bidenomics” and manufacturing.
Biden’s campaign has been aggressively highlighting a failed Trump-era manufacturing deal in the state, hoping to undermine confidence in Trump’s ability to grow the economy. In 2017, Trump’s White House touted a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn in Wisconsin, which promised to bring 13,000 jobs, a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus, and a multimillion-dollar investment to the state.
But by 2021, the company drastically scaled back on its plans, delivering just fractions of its promised jobs and investment.
When the New York Times reported last week that Trump would likely skip the RNC debate and sit for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson instead, Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said, “Of course, Donald Trump wants to avoid appearing in Wisconsin because he knows Wisconsin is a state that illustrates his failed leadership.”
“Just this week, Foxconn announced another move out of the state. Wisconsinites soundly rejected his ongoing efforts to ban abortion in the state’s Supreme Court election earlier this year. He cannot hide from the fact that Wisconsinites rejected him in 2020, and will reject the MAGA agenda again in 2024,” he added.
In response, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said, “Crooked Joe Biden is failing America on every single level. In addition to being the worst president in our country’s history, he is also the most corrupt as the Biden Crime Cartel has sold America out to our enemies for their own financial gain.”
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“That is why President Trump is dominating in the polls as his campaign represents everyday Americans who are sick and tired of living in Biden’s America and want to return to a country with a booming economy, safe communities, a secure border, and respect on the world stage,” he continued.
In a June poll from Marquette University Law School, Biden bested Trump, with 52% saying they would vote for him. Trump received 43%. In a matchup with Trump’s biggest opponent in the 2024 GOP primary, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Biden still won but by a smaller margin. The president received 49% to DeSantis’s 47%.
