Obama and Walz excoriate Trump at Wisconsin rally in early voting push

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "In both 2016 and 2020, Trump performed better in Wisconsin than polling suggested.
47% : Musk has also promised the chance to win $1m to voters in swing states who sign a petition linked to efforts to return Trump to power.
39% : Trump, who discouraged absentee voting before the 2020 election, has struggled to stay on message about early voting, alternately urging supporters to vote early and casting aspersions on the voting method - sometimes during the same speech.
36% : "When he's not complaining, he's trying to sell you stuff," he added, referring to Trump, who has raised funds by selling gold-colored sneakers, bibles and $100,000 watches.
35% : The Democratic vice-presidential candidate ripped into Trump ally and Silicon Valley billionaire Musk, warning that he could be charged with regulating his own businesses if Trump were elected.
32% : After Trump lost the 2020 election and Republicans failed to generate a red wave during the 2022 midterm elections, GOP leaders have sought to encourage their base to cast ballots before election day.
29% : "Some people would say: 'I'm voting for Kamala and my husband was for Trump, but he's not going to vote.
28% : With polls showing Harris and Trump in a dead heat across the swing states, including Wisconsin, the last-minute push to turn out voters could determine the outcome of the election.
28% : In 2020, Joe Biden won in Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes; in 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin with a similarly slim majority.
28% : Reviving earlier jabs against Trump, he noted Harris "did not pretend to work at McDonald's when it was closed", but actually held a fast-food job in college to help with her expenses.
27% : Since the 2020 election, when Trump cast doubts on the integrity of absentee voting amid the Covid-19 pandemic, early voting has been a source of consternation in the Republican party.
26% : Obama went on to campaign for Kamala Harris in Detroit on Tuesday evening, alongside rapper Eminem, in an effort to drum up support in Michigan where polls suggest Harris and Trump are in a virtual deadlock.
16% : He spoke about efforts by his administration to implement a pandemic-preparedness plan and accused Trump of abandoning the effort, resulting in more Covid-19 deaths.
13% : Walz also slammed Trump, who this week served meals at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, accusing him of "cosplaying" as a working-class person and noting that the restaurant had closed to accommodate the presidential candidate.
11% : "Obama, who won in Wisconsin in 2008 and 2012, urged his Madison audience to get to the polls and spent much of his speech attacking Trump.
6% : For his Michigan audience, Obama recounted the chaos Trump helped cause in the state after the 2020 election: "Because Donald Trump was willing to spread lies about voter fraud in Michigan, protesters came down, banged on the windows, shouting, 'Let us in.

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