A Key State Trump Needs To Win Is Battling A Massive COVID Outbreak | Talking Points Memo

For years, political operatives have been waging war over Wisconsin: Republicans scrambling to keep the upper hand in a key state that secured Trump’s 2016 victory, and Democrats trying to bring the one-time progressive powerhouse back into the fold.


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“There’s a very strong feeling in the more rural, conservative areas that this is still all a hoax, that these measures violate our constitutional rights,”

It’s 5:00 p.m. somewhere, right? It’s okay to start drinking now, right?

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“I’m not sick. I have no symptoms,” Johnson told local media. “I certainly did not anticipate testing positive.”

Sounds a lot like the old lament, ‘I didn’t know the gun was loaded.’

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Donnie fiddles while Wisconsin burns.

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Trump needs to hold his first covid-rally in Florida. The race is too even there.

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In Madison where I live, we had massive turnout in the 2018 gubernatorial election, we will absolutely top that this year!

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From 538:

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The Marquette Law School poll is considered the ‘gold standard’ in the state.

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:+1::+1::+1:

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Logging-on just to add:

Fuck Scott Walker and the WI GOP.

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Trump did not win Minnesota in 2016 and he won’t even get close this year.

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One fair in particular, held in Shawano county just to the north of Green Bay, preceded a situation at the local hospital in the county that, Casey said, is now 85 percent full of COVID-19 patients.

So what you’re saying is that there’s still room…?

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Asymptomatic - that’s not a real word, right?

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My brother who lives just outside Green Bay told me last night that Republicans are becoming really disliked in Brown County. Not only Trump, but the local Republicans in both houses of the state legislature could lose Brown County which includes Green Bay. Brown County has long been a Republican stronghold and if it is even close in 2020, Trump has little to no chance of winning Wisconsin, at least winning Wisconsin honestly as the state has one of the most dishonest Supreme Courts.

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A rally anywhere on Saturday will leave more than adequate time for cases to start appearing. I can only hope he does it in Florida, where seniors are already fearing for their lives.

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And if it isn’t 5:00 p. m. anywhere, it’s OK to adjust your various timepieces.

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Wisconsin went for Trump in 2016 by a margin of around 22,000 votes, or 0.77 percent of all votes case.

and now exhibits tRUmp’s famous “shit stain orange” patina

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It’s a liberal word. Only Democrats and scientists use it.

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screw that, he desperately needs to hold a massive indoor West Virginia rally, that place clearly needs a flush

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Not to mention Koch and the late Koch.

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