Half an hour from the Republican National Convention floor, private jets are parked at the Waukesha airfield. It’s 30 minutes down Highway 43 and in a place called WOW.
That’s the acronym for Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties.
The corner of Wisconsin that gave us the collected Les Paul Gibson guitar donald trump in the last elections, but Joe Biden He won the entire state, by only 20,000 votes.
In Wisconsin, rural areas lean Republican; In the must-win state, support for Trump is strongest here.
I met Rob Schuett, who has owned the family farm in Waukesha for 50 years. He said the economy is his priority when deciding who to vote for.
“Inflation has affected everyone. It’s probably number one. I mean, it affects everyone. It’s probably number one,” he said.
“You can spend $300,000 or $400,000 on a tractor and $1 million on a new combine. And to justify that, you would need 10,000 acres of crops.”
Trump is poised for victory in the undecided states, where the elections will be decided. Opinion polls gave him the advantage before the assassination attempt.
Kristin Robran, a ceramicist from Waukesha, told Sky News: “I think that humanizes him. He stood up. He showed how strong he was, he kept fighting.”
Kristin Robran
Trump’s assassination attempt did not change artist Donna Krischan’s vote choice. She described the presidential election this way: “A good man versus a not-so-good man.”
When asked which was which, he responded, “I’m going to vote for Biden.”
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Biden’s choice to vote was shared by another local resident, who said: “I know where my moral compass is and there is one candidate who clearly points in one direction and the other points in the other direction.”
One of the key questions in the swing state of Wisconsin and others is how many undecided voters are left?
How many can be undecided between candidates who have been in office and presented clear cases to compare and contrast?
Come November, elections in WOW and across Wisconsin could be decided less by a swing vote than by getting out the vote.
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