President Joe Biden will return to Wisconsin next week for a stop in Madison to discuss "lowering costs for Americans," according to the White House.
Biden's trip to the battleground state's liberal bastion will come one week after Donald Trump's scheduled rally in Green Bay on Tuesday. The former president's stop is his first visit to the state this 2024 election cycle.
Biden, meanwhile, has already made five trips to Wisconsin, including a February visit to DeForest. Other Biden surrogates, including Vice President Kamal Harris, who traveled to Madison last month, have made multiple stops in Wisconsin as the state is poised to once again play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the November presidential election.
Biden will visit Wisconsin on April 8 before traveling to Chicago for a campaign reception, according to a brief statement from the White House. Additional details, including the specific time and location of Biden's stop, were not immediately available.
Trump's Tuesday visit to the state falls on Wisconsin's presidential primary. Both Trump and Biden have already secured enough delegates to become their parties' nominees, making the outcome of Tuesday’s vote purely symbolic.
Biden defeated Trump in Wisconsin by almost 21,000 votes in 2020, four years after Trump's equally narrow 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the state.
Democrats have seen considerable success in recent statewide elections, including liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz's victory last April, which shifted the state's high court to a liberal majority for the first time in more than a decade, and Evers' successful bid for a second term in 2022.
However, Republicans are hopeful that a heated presidential election, buoyed by the Republican National Convention this summer in Milwaukee, could spell a successful year for GOP candidates.
Biden and Trump remain deadlocked in Wisconsin, according to a Marquette Law School Poll released in February, although the poll was taken when GOP challenger Nikki Haley was still a candidate for the Republican nomination.
The poll found both Trump and Biden receiving support from 49% of registered voters, with 2% saying they had not yet decided. The results marked a slight shift from Marquette's November poll, which found Biden holding 50% support among registered Wisconsin voters to Trump's 48%, well within that poll's margin of error.
Of February respondents who are very enthusiastic to vote, Trump holds a 19-point lead over Biden. However, Biden has more support among respondents who said they were somewhat enthusiastic, as well as those who are not very and not at all enthusiastic to vote.
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