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Donald Trump can win the Dairy State by running up the numbers in rural Wisconsin. No recent presidential candidate has achieved such a lopsided victory in rural communities like he did in 2016. But if he wants to replicate that success, he should stick to a policy contest, not a personality one.
As this election enters its final stretch, the visits from Trump, Harris, and their campaign surrogates are relentless. However, the conversation surrounding the decline of family farms and our rural communities is far from center stage. And President Trump has no shortage of wins to tout: he negotiated the historic USMCA, fought absurd regulations like WOTUS, and delivered an economic lifeline to farmers and rural businesses during the pandemic. Most notably, he drove demand for homegrown biofuels through actions like allowing the year-round sale of E15.
The contrast between his policies and those of Kamala Harris could not be more stark, and THAT should be his campaign’s focus. Since Biden took office, this administration has taken our nation from on the wrong track to completely off the rails. An ag economy in crisis. Layoffs by the thousands. Out of control inflation. Sky high input costs.
We have the rare opportunity to choose between two candidates with on-the-job training. When you compare four years under the Trump administration against four years under the Biden-Harris administration, most Americans agree that we were better off with President Trump in the White House.
Trump needs not just to call out Kamala Harris but put the issues that matter to Wisconsin farmers and families at center stage. If he focuses on the issues on hand and the results he’s delivered, he can truly make rural Wisconsin not just great again, but greater than it has ever been.
– Pollnow, of Reeseville, is a farmer and Elba town chairman.
