Vice President Kamala Harris Wisconsin visit; Brookfield campaign event
BROOKFIELD, Wis. - On the eve of early voting in Wisconsin, Vice President Kamala Harris came to Brookfield on Monday, Oct. 21.
Harris campaigned in Brookfield's Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in the Republican stronghold of Waukesha County. She had backup from former conservative radio host Charlie Sykes and Liz Cheney, the former third-highest ranking U.S. House Republican.
"We love our country, and our country is worth fighting for," Harris said. "And that's how I think of this: our democracy will only be as strong as we are willing to fight for it."
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The average of polls show a tie in this battleground state.
"We're not going to be talking about Jewish space lasers or Arnold Palmer's putting game," Sykes said, who led a Q&A with Harris and Cheney.
BROOKFIELD, WISCONSIN - OCTOBER 21: Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (C) holds a campaign event with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) (R) at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts on October 21, 2024 in Brookfi
Waukesha County has Wisconsin's highest number of Republican voters. But in recent years, the numbers have dropped.
In 2014, Gov. Scott Walker won 72% of it.
Then in both 2016 and 2020, former President Donald Trump won 60%.
"We have to be willing to say as a nation: we are better than partisanship," Cheney said. "If you wouldn't hire somebody to babysit your kids, you shouldn't make that guy the President of the United States."
Both campaigns are trying to win over suburban voters.
Republican Sen. JD Vance on Sunday campaigned in the same county.
"Thanks to Kamala Harris’ Open Border Policy and sky-high grocery prices, I think the people of Wisconsin are going to say to Kamala Harris, you’re fired," he said. "Go back to San Francisco, where you belong. We want Donald Trump as our president."
As of Tuesday, Wisconsin kicks off early voting. Part of the question is where protest voters will land.
Some 48,000 Democratic voters voted "uninstructed," largely upset with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of Israel and Gaza.
For Republican primary voters, 77,000 voted for Nikki Haley. She’s since endorsed Trump, while Cheney backs Harris.
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Since the conventions wrapped, Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz have visited Wisconsin a total of 11 times. Walz will be back Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Since the convention, Trump and Vance have campaigned nine times.
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A few votes here and there could add up to an overall win. In Waukesha County, for example, Haley won more than 9,000 primary votes even after she dropped out of the race.
Overall, Wisconsin was decided for President Joe Biden in 2020 by just 20,000 votes.
Reaction
WisGOP Chairman Brian Schimming
"Four years ago, Liz Cheney warned voters of Kamala Harris' extreme agenda, including an 'Absentee ballots for al Qaeda' program and her plan to 'take away guns & health insurance' from working families. Now the Harris-Walz campaign is trotting out Cheney in a desperate attempt to salvage their dwindling support in the final days of this campaign. Liz Cheney may have changed. But the facts about Kamala Harris remain the same: she is too extreme for Wisconsin."
Jacob Fischer, Team Trump Wisconsin Communications Director
"Showing off irrelevant former ‘Republicans’ of the past at campaign events doesn’t change the fact that Kamala Harris is running to extend her record of unlimited illegal immigration, rising prices, and endless wars abroad by another four years. Another incompetent Harris administration is the last thing Wisconsinites want or need, regardless of Liz Cheney’s opinions."