With the election in four days, Wisconsin is the place to be tonight.
Both presidential candidates are holding rallies in and around Milwaukee.
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak within the hour at the Pfizer Forum downtown.
That's where here in Now reporter Nathan Denzine is.
Hi, Nathan.
Hi, Fred.
So what time is Donald Trump scheduled to take the stage and who have you been hearing
from in that crowd until he does?
Yeah, so Trump is expected to speak here at about eight o'clock, but we know with a
lot of Trump rallies he can show up late.
So probably about eight thirty is realistic.
In the meantime, people here have heard from a lot of former and current Wisconsin representatives.
Former Governor's Tommy Thompson and Scott Walker were both here as were representatives.
Brian Stiles, Scott Fitzgerald, Senator Ron Johnson and Senate candidate Eric Humvee.
So very Wisconsin specific, not a lot of outside of people.
What's the energy like there inside?
It's very high.
It is very high energy in here, Fred.
When we came here at about seven a.m. this morning, there was a line that was already
forming and it's pretty full in here.
The second section in here was curtained off initially, but they've been opening up
that more and more as we've gotten closer to Trump speaking.
There is not an MTC didn't hear if that seat is available.
Why would Donald Trump visit a Democratic stronghold like Milwaukee once again?
Yeah, so it harkens back to the advice that former Governor Tommy Thompson had given to
Republicans in the state and that is to really get these areas of Madison and Milwaukee hard.
If you look at it, the percentages might say that they're very, very democratic and that's
true, but there's still a lot of Republican votes in these cities and they don't get to
see their presidential candidate very often.
So Republicans are trying to get these areas to drive out those voters because as we know
in a state like Wisconsin, every vote counts.
So this isn't the first trip to Wisconsin this week, as we have mentioned.
Where else has Trump rallied?
Yeah, so Trump was also in Green Bay on Wednesday where he rallied with former legendary Green
Bay quarterback Brett Barr and he really urged his supporters to get out the vote.
Here's what he had to say.
With your vote this November, we are going to fire Kamala and we are going to save America.
We will cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands
of factories back to America and in fact, we're going to bring a lot of them right back
to Wisconsin.
So we saw him there in his reflective vest as a prop to highlight a comment that Joe Biden
had made earlier this week, but it does sure seem, Nathan, like these campaigns are
leaving it all on the field in the final days.
Can you sense that from the crowd as well?
Yeah, absolutely.
You're pulling out all the stops here tonight.
The music is loud as you could probably hear behind me.
They've had the t-shirt cannon out.
They really care about this state.
In his many visits to Wisconsin, who is Trump hoping to turn out?
Well, really, he's hoping to turn out his face here.
He's probably not changing many minds.
But in Israeli and Green Bay, he was in the Bao counties of Brown, out of Ganyan,
Winnebago, which is a really strong Republican stronghold, and here are the Wao counties
of Washington, Ozaki, and Waukeshaft are very close, and those have been trending a little
bit blue in recent years, but it still can be counted on as, you know, a lot of Republican
goals that could be coming to Trump.
So he's trying to drive out his face in these last hours of the election here in Wisconsin.
All right.
Thanks for dancing.
We really appreciate your reporting from the Pfizer Forum there in Milwaukee with that
loud music, the t-shirt cannons, and all the rest.
Thanks very much for your reporting.
Thanks, Fred.
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