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It's a big deal any time the
president comes to your state.

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But it seems to be
an especially big deal.

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Now, what's different about this

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visit here
in this point in 2026?

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If you look back in history,
more on the Democratic side.

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There is a history
of some candidates,

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not only not sure

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if they want to sit next
to an unpopular president

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in a midterm election in 2010,
President Obama came to Madison.

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There's a big question
of whether Russ Feingold

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was going to appear on
the stage. In the end, he did.

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But all the weeks
leading up to it, his campaign

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wasn't
sure he might be in Africa.

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He had some other things going
on, and that was really

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a political question of does
he want to be seen with him?

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And he ended up losing
that race.

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Just two years ago,

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President Biden visited

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Madison off that disastrous
debate performance.

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Tammy Baldwin was elsewhere.

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She didn't come to Madison
to be with the president.

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That's about campaign optics.

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I mean, we're talking about

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sort of the steep odds

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that the Republican Party
is facing right now.

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Obviously, the president
right now has some of his lowest

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approval ratings
throughout his time in office.

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But farmers, in particular

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have really helped
deliver him victories.

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I believe in his last election,

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he won

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the vast, vast
majority of sort of farm

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dependent counties
in the country.

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And yet a lot of his policies,
tariff policies

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in particular,
have really been connected

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with some of the pain
that farmers have been feeling.