In battle between Trump and Harris, both campaigns target the Blue Wall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "As Trump said, I think if we win Wisconsin, we win the whole thing.
64% : During his rally Thursday at a steel plant in Michigan, Trump promised to restore the American auto industry - historically centered in the Detroit area - to its past glory.
62% : Another former Democrat, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also endorsed Trump recently.
61% : Vance and Trump each went to Pennsylvania last week.
61% : They landed in Pittsburgh and took a bus tour through deep-blue Allegheny County into the more rural Beaver County, which Trump won, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.
61% : Trump won the state by just 10,704 votes in 2016.
60% : Republicans hosted their convention in Milwaukee, and Harris sought to tweak Trump during Democrats' convention by hosting a rally at the same arena.
58% : The three so-called "Blue Wall" states were Democratic bulwarks for decades, until Trump won them in 2016 on his way to winning the presidency.
57% : In addition to Pennsylvania, Trump made two appearances last week in Michigan and one in Wisconsin.
56% : Trump renegotiated NAFTA as president.
55% : Harris is casting herself as a forward-looking consensus builder, while Trump tries to portray her as extremely liberal.
51% : He also brought an autoworker up on stage who started a Facebook group called Autoworkers for Trump 2024.
50% : The powerful United Auto Workers union has endorsed Harris, prompting Trump to lash out at the union president during the rally.
49% : Following several hurried days on the trail, which saw him visit Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in quick succession, Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, took the weekend off from campaigning.
48% : Then, it will be up to the vice presidential picks and top campaign surrogates to do the heavy lifting for several days, as Trump and Harris prepare for a consequential face-off.
47% : They'll hit the same battleground states that Trump did last week in a series of campaign stops on Monday.
47% : Kanninen said that as Trump was busy defending himself unsuccessfully against 34 felony counts in court, Democrats were putting together a robust operation, which Harris took over from Biden.
41% : In 2016, Trump railed against NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which helped him win over blue-collar voters.
40% : Trump, she says, will give tax breaks to the wealthy, and she has equated his proposed tariffs on imported goods to a national sales tax.
36% : She has closed the gap with Trump and turned Pennsylvania into a statistical tie.
35% : Much of Trump's get out the vote operation is being handled by outside conservative groups, which isn't traditional and puts the effort outside the campaign's direct control.
34% : Trump is hammering a familiar message on trade protectionism in the Rust Belt, a region that has been hard hit for decades as manufacturing jobs moved overseas.
30% : "Trump was in Wisconsin for a town hall Thursday with Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who endorsed the former Republican president.
29% : "You want to go expand the gains that Democrats have made in the suburbs with independents and moderate Republicans on issues like abortion or on January 6."Trump has ramped up his campaigning in recent weeks to try to blunt Harris' momentum, blanketing the battleground states with rallies and other appearances.
22% : Trump argues the focus on electric vehicles will kill the auto industry and pledges to have the federal government reverse course if he wins.
21% : Trump is meanwhile telling voters that he'd prevent foreign wars, as Harris chastises him for comments he made last year about acting like a dictator on the first day of his administration.
20% : Harris told her supporters last week in Savannah that after a recent Supreme Court ruling, Trump would effectively be immune from prosecution no matter what he does in the White House.
18% : Trump has been slipping in the polls; Harris is still introducing herself to voters.

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