This morning, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel scooped some big news: Trump and his MAGA allies have already abandoned minority outreach efforts in Wisconsin. The RNC has officially closed their Milwaukee community center and the space will soon be filled with an ice cream shop.
While Donald Trump pulls out of Milwaukee, the Biden-Harris campaign continues to highlight President Biden’s work to lower costs for families and bring Black unemployment to a historic low. For the first time in over 20 years, the Wisconsin Democratic coordinated campaign working to reelect President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Democrats up and down the ballot this November will be headquartered in Milwaukee, demonstrating a clear commitment to Black voters, and the President recently visited the state to highlight his work to reconnect neighborhoods along the 6th Street corridor that have historically been left behind.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: RNC’s former Hispanic outreach center in Milwaukee soon to become an ice cream shop
[Lawrence Andrea, 3/28/24]
- If the Republican National Committee wants to reopen its Hispanic outreach center in Milwaukee this cycle, it’s going to need to find a new space. The center’s former location will soon be an ice cream shop.
- The RNC in January told the Journal Sentinel it planned to reopen the Milwaukee center after quietly closing it and others across the country following the midterms. In recent weeks, however, several media outlets reported former President Donald Trump’s campaign threw out the plans to open new minority outreach centers and revive previous locations.
- [An RNC spokeswoman] did not respond this week when asked if the committee was searching for another Milwaukee location now that a new tenant leased its former space.
- The committee left tables and chairs in the building, which the building owner removed.
- Mateo Grajales, the new tenant, told the Journal Sentinel he plans to open Michoacán A Pedir De Boca around May 1. The shop, he said, will service ice cream, street corn, nachos and other Hispanic snacks.
