Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz visited the same Wisconsin city on Monday to make their final pitch to voters in the Badger State.
The rival candidates both spent the morning in La Crosse, a city of around 51,000, to urge their supporters to show up big on Election Day. Former President Donald Trump currently leads Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin 48.6%-48.4%, according to an average of 88 polls from the state.
Vance spoke at the La Crosse Center Monday morning before heading out for a campaign stop in Michigan.
“This is actually my last visit to the state of Wisconsin for this election, but that’s OK,” Vance said. “I promise I will come back as your vice president of the United States because we’re going to win this thing.”
During his speech, Vance jabbed at rival Walz for having to defend the record of Harris.
“And I want you to spare a prayer for Governor Tim Walz,” Vance said. “I don’t think any of us have had the kind of day that Tim Walz is going to have today where he’s got to go around and convince the American people that Kamala Harris can be the president of the United States. That’s tough work.”
Vance also spoke about the terrible jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that found the economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, pointing out that many of the jobs gains were in the government sector.
“[Kamala Harris] created jobs for bureaucrats while all of our neighbors and friends are struggling in this economy. And I’ve got to tell you when Donald Trump is president, we’re going to get back to a golden age of American prosperity.”
Shortly after Vance spoke, Walz spoke at The Main event space in La Crosse to address backers of Harris’ campaign
“This is a generational opportunity for us to turn the page for us to take this momentum going forward,” he said. “This election, quite literally, could be won through the state of Wisconsin, and it could be won right here through La Crosse.”
Walz also talked about the economy, claiming that a Harris administration would lower inflation.
“Every single day we will be focused on lowering the cost of living for middle-class folks and putting more money back in the pockets again of middle-class folks,” he said.
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Wisconsin Team Trump Communications Director Jacob Fischer blasted Harris’ economic policies on Monday in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“After four years of Kamalanomics, Wisconsin households have spent nearly $28,000 more due to historic inflation. If given four more years, Kamala Harris is proposing the largest tax hike in history,” he said. “Meanwhile, President Trump is proposing to help hard-working Wisconsinites with commonsense policies like No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Social Security, No Tax on Overtime, tax credits for caregivers and children, and tax credits for new farming equipment.”
Wisconsin was decided by around 20,000 votes in both 2020 and 2016. Cygnal pollster Brent Buchanan told The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” podcast on Monday that he believes Wisconsin will be the most likely “Blue Wall” state to break in Trump’s favor.
