Republicans gather around Trump probe in Wisconsin

WALKESHA, WI. – Terry Dittrich has collaborated with Donald Trump's re-election campaign to a simple strategy to win the Wisconsin Critical Battlefield next year: bring together even more fans from around the world. firearms, anti-abortion conservatives and illegal immigrants in his surprise 2016 victory in the state.

The decision by Democrats in the US House of Representatives to launch a formal investigation into Trump's dismissal this week has eased the task, said Dittrich, chairman of the state's Republican Party in Waukesha County.

"I hate to say that it's good for us, but in the end it will help to increase the number of votes," said Dittrich. "It shows how crazy and desperate the Democrats are in trying to destroy this president and this country."

Wisconsin will be the scene of a decisive "arms race" in 2020 between Republicans and Democrats, predicted a senior Democratic Party official. The Democrats, determined not to repeat the mistakes of 2016 when nominee Hillary Clinton had never visited the state, will hold their naming convention in Milwaukee in July.

Hours after the announcement of the investigation of impeaching, the Republican National Committee, which works closely with the Trump campaign, sent party presidents across the country arguments against what he called a "fishing expedition by impeachment".

The message, seen by Reuters, will now be part of the aggressive and shameless strategy already underway in Wisconsin to further transform the Republican base than those who voted in 2016, party officials said.

House Democrats opened an imputation investigation on Tuesday after a whistleblower's complaint revealed that Trump had asked the Ukrainian president during a phone call in July to investigate Joe Biden, a former vice president and vice-president. main candidate for the Democratic presidency.

Democrats accuse Trump of abusing his office and endangering national security by seeking foreign interference in the November 2020 US election. he had done nothing wrong.

Wisconsin is at the center of Trump's campaign after winning 23,000 votes in 2016, an unexpected victory that, with victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan, sealed its improbable rise to the White House.

But Trump underperformed in Wisconsin compared to five of the last six Republican presidential candidates.

His strategists believe that there is a large group of Republican voters who did not go to Trump in 2016 because they were not sure of his conservative powers or that he was not a member of the party. they felt that he had no opportunity to capture the state.

Contrary to his first-time insurgent bid, Trump is heading to the 2020 elections with a firm grip on the party and a proven Conservative record that has kept his promises, they said.

EYES ON THE COUNTIES OF WOW

His campaigners are focusing their attention on a region near Milwaukee, known as "WOW County" – Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington – where Republicans say Wisconsin will be won or lost.

In 2016, Trump received nearly 30,000 fewer votes in the three counties than the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

It's the voters Republicans want to gather for Trump this time.

At a recent re-election training session organized by Trump inside the Waukesha County Republican Party headquarters, adorned with a full-length Trump image giving a thumbs-up sign, About 50 county presidents, party activists and volunteers gathered to hear the Wisconsin game plan. .

"We are focused on working with Tea Party groups, pro-life groups, hunting groups, gun rights groups – they are all part of the coalition we need to win," he said. said Mark Jefferson, president of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

Jefferson and other speakers said that door-to-door volunteers should discuss with voters four questions that polls and focus groups have shown most resonate with Republicans.

These included immigration and the border wall between the United States and Mexico; The appointment of conservative judges by Trump and his anti-abortion stance; his tax cuts; and what speakers have described as the left-leaning democrats and their agenda to make America a "socialist" country.

In a phone interview this week, Jefferson said the impeachment investigation would also be a rallying cry.

"It kindled a fire under our base and people are upset," he said.

Overall, Americans are less and less in favor of Trump 's dismissal, according to this week' s Reuters / Ipsos polls. The September 23-24 poll revealed that 37 percent of Americans believed Trump should be charged, up from 44 percent in May.

Alan Bingenheimer, 71, a retired engineer in Greendale, south of Milwaukee, said the Democrats' push for deputation would prevent him from fighting even more for Trump.

"I think the Democrats have gone completely crazy," he said.

SUBURBAN ELECTORS

Of course, the fight for impeachment could make a difference in the state of the battlefield.

Trump continues to fight at the national level with suburban voters, especially women who have come to disapprove of the president. A Reuters / Ipsos survey from 23 to 24 September showed that 43% of adults living in the suburbs approve of the president, while 54% approve it. Of the suburban women, 39% agree with Trump while 56% do not.

Wisconsin Democratic Party President Ben Wikler said the poll would reinforce the party's central message to suburban voters, saying Trump was obsessed with himself and was critical of political opponents rather than his own. 39, help American families.

Alana Morris, a 40-year-old elector from the suburbs of Milwaukee, said she had voted for Trump in 2016.

But the mother of two teenage girls now finds him "disgusting" because of his general conduct and the way he talks about women. She doubts that she will vote for him again.

The impeachment investigation, she said, "only adds to the chaos around Trump".