Attacking Joe Biden will only get the president so far, they say: Ultimately, the election will be a referendum on him.
Donald Trump has made clear he will attack Joe Biden unmercifully in order to ensure the election is a choice between him and Joe Biden — rather than an up-or-down vote on the president’s handling of the coronavirus.
Scott Walker has a different view, at least when it comes to Trump’s chances in the all-important battleground of Wisconsin.
“I think it still boils down to a referendum on the president. They’ll beat up on Biden and they’ll raise some concerns,” said the former two-term Republican governor of Wisconsin, who lost his seat in 2018. But in the end, if people felt good about their health and the state of the economy, Trump will probably carry Wisconsin. If not, Walker said, “it’s much more difficult” for the president. Continue reading.
President Donald Trump’s promise to bring back manufacturing jobs in a huge way played a major role in the success he enjoyed in the Rust Belt in 2016. Trump carried Pennsylvania and Michigan, two Rust Belt states a Republican hadn’t won in a presidential race since President George H.W. Bush in 1988, as well as Wisconsin, which hadn’t gone for a GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan’s landslide 1984 reelection victory. But a report by Michael Tackett for the New York Times describes Trump’s promise of a renaissance in U.S.-based manufacturing jobs as a