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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Jack Yuds, chairman of the county Republican Party, said support for Trump is stronger in this part of the state than it was in 2016 or 2020.
63% : On Tuesday, Trump made his first-ever visit to Dane County, home to the liberal capital city of Madison, in an effort to turn out the Republican vote even in the state's Democratic strongholds.
58% : ""If we win Wisconsin, we win the presidency," Trump said.
58% : Wisconsin is perennially tight in presidential elections but has gone for the Republicans just once in the past 40 years, when Trump won the state in 2016.
56% : Juneau is a a town of 2,000 about 50 miles north of Madison in Dodge County, which Trump won in 2020 with 65% of the vote.
54% : But that didn't stop thousands of people from sticking with Trump as he urged supporters to begin to vote by mail and early, when the time comes, so they turn out "in record numbers.
54% : Harris and outside groups supporting her candidacy had more advertising time reserved in Wisconsin from Oct. 1 through Nov. 5, more than $25 million compared with $20 million for Trump and his allies.
53% : "They say that Wisconsin is probably the toughest of the swing states to win," Trump said in his opening remarks at an airplane hangar in a rural Juneau where the overflow crowd spilled out on to the tarmac.
53% : "Much more important, in my opinion, than rallies," Graul said.Mark Seelman, from Watertown, said the energy and size of the crowd sends a message that Trump is strong in Wisconsin.
44% : Harris and Trump are focusing on Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, the "blue wall" states that went for Trump in 2016 and flipped to Biden in the next election.
40% : Trump stood on stage for nearly two hours, touching the third rail of Wisconsin politics by overlapping with a Green Bay Packers game, drawing derision from Democrats.
40% : If it says Trump on it, you can sell it.
28% : "Trump won the state in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton by fewer than 23,000 votes and lost to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 by just under 21,000 votes.
10% : "In the political chatter class, they're worried," said Brandon Scholz, a retired Republican strategist and longtime political observer in Wisconsin who voted for Trump in 2020 but said he is not voting for Trump or Harris this year.

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