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The President Trump (second from left), Governor Scott Walker (left), Foxconn President Terry Gou, and House Speaker Paul Ryan (right) on Thursday, June 28, 2018, at the inauguration Foxconn's official factory in Mount Pleasant, said he remained committed to investing the $ 10 billion in what he called the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park, and to create 13,000 jobs.The factory will create billboards at from huge plates of thin glass. Photo: Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Buy Photo

President Donald Trump called Governor Scott Walker "one of my favorites" on Thursday and praised the Foxconn Technology Group's Wisconsin projects as Walker pursues a vast effort to promote the business around the state. [19659007] In recent weeks, Foxconn has announced plans to open offices at Green Bay and Eau Claire. These moves will help Walker argue that the $ 4 billion incentive package for the Taiwanese tech giant will improve the economy of all of Wisconsin, not just the southeastern part of the country.

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The GOP governor received Trump's help on Thursday, when the two appeared together in the White House.

"Scott Walker, you know who it is, right?" Trump said he shook hands with Foxconn special advisor Chris "Tank" Murdoch. "He's building the most incredible plant you've seen in Wisconsin, is not it, Scott?"

Murdoch says Foxconn "brings back an industry in America that has not been there for at least 30 years, which is advanced"

Thursday's ceremony was to add jobs and train workers but she also gave the opportunity to Walker and Trump to once again put the focus on Foxconn.As part of the event, representatives from Foxconn and from one to Twenty other companies and trade associations signed a commitment to workers.

But the White House event came at a difficult time for Trump and Walker because of polls large-scale on Russian interference in politics.

Trump caught fire from members of his own party for downplaying Russian week interference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And Walker has had to explain how he came to make his picture in 2015 with a woman hand holding accused of being a Russian agent. (Walker said he briefly spoke to the woman when she and another Russian approached her in 2015 at a convention of the National Rifle Association to get their picture with him, as did many of her supporters. )

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Gov. Scott Walker thanked President Donald Trump for his efforts to land Foxconn for Wisconsin.
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Also on Thursday, US Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin was among the co-sponsors the bipartisan DETER Act, which would punish Russia for any future electoral interference. Meaning. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) And Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) Introduced the bill.

Baldwin said: "The interference of Russia in our elections can not be dismissed or ignored.The Congress has the responsibility to act and impose costs on those who would attack the American Democracy. "

The Democrats seized Trump by calling Walker" one of my favorites "and noted that Trump had thrown Walker into the past, including when they were both

TJ Helmstetter, a spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, claimed that Walker put his political interests above those of the state

"Walker may be a" favorite "of Trump, but Wisconsinites"

Members of Congress – including Sean Duffy's representative from North Wisconsin – and members of Trump's Cabinet attended the White House event. Walker

Foxconn said it would invest up to $ 10 billion in its Mount Pleasant plant and create up to 13,000 jobs.

Walker described the plan as being: one that will transform the economy of Wisconsin, while the Democrats have called it a bad deal. They claimed that the company would not produce as many jobs as it claims [8901]. Eight Democrats are in contention on Aug. 14 to challenge Walker this fall and all oppose the Foxconn deal. One of them, Matt Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic Party, said that he was going to pursue the business from his first day as governor and that he was going to would focus on the issue in an advertisement to begin on Friday

. Foxconn is mixed. In a Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday, 46 percent believed the state was paying more to get the Wisconsin business than it was worth while 39 percent believed the state would draw at least as much value from the factory as it invests in

The biggest problem for Walker is knowing what people think the deal will mean in their area. Only 30% of respondents thought it would directly benefit businesses in the area where they lived, while 58% believed it would not.

These opinions are more pronounced outside of southeastern Wisconsin. For example, 72% of respondents in northwestern Wisconsin thought that development would not benefit businesses in their region. In the Green Bay area, 62% felt this way.

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To counter these attitudes, Walker promoted Foxconn's plans to establish offices elsewhere in the country. 39; state. On Monday, he stopped in Eau Claire to announce that the company would create 150 jobs there. Last month, he made a similar announcement in Green Bay for a center that is expected to create 200 jobs.

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