Biden up with two new ads in Wisconsin

Joe Biden is up with two new TV ads in Wisconsin A 60-second Biden spot calls the election “our chance to put the darkness of the past four years behind us” and “start fresh in America.” The campaign didn’t release

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COVID-19, farm crisis among issues in Adams County as November election nears

Adams County, a historic Democratic stronghold with a 15 percent poverty rate (against the state’s overall 10 percent poverty rate), backed President Trump by a margin of 21 percent. Out of the county’s 10,130 votes in 2016, 5,966 went to Trump and only 3,745 went to Hillary Clinton. Until then, Democrats have carried the county with wide margins in every presidential election from 1984 on — coming after Adams had backed Ronald Reagan twice in a row.

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Trump ad focuses on unrest in Kenosha

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is launching a new TV ad in Wisconsin that focuses on the unrest in Kenosha and his response to it. The Trump campaign said new spots in Wisconsin and Minnesota are part of a multi-state buy

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Biden ad denounces rioting, looting

Joe Biden has launched a 60-second spot that uses footage from his speech Monday in Pittsburgh denouncing rioting and looting, calling it “lawlessness” that should be prosecuted. The campaign said the spot is airing nationwide on cable and in 10

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Green Party to sue to get on Wisconsin ballot

The Green Party says it has retained a law firm to file a lawsuit this week challenging a decision by the state Elections Commission to keep its presidential and vice presidential candidates off the November ballot. The move comes after

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America First Action PAC ad focuses on Kenosha unrest

A new ad from a pro-Trump PAC focuses on the violent protests in Kenosha that left one business burned to the ground. America First Action PAC said the ad focusing on Kenosha will run in the Wausau market. The group is also adding $2.8 million in digital, cable and broadcast

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Trump ad highlights economic recovery amid COVID-19

A new Trump’s new ad says “the greatest economy the world has ever seen” is coming back to life, but “Biden wants to change that.” The campaign didn’t disclose details on the buy in Wisconsin. The ad is running in a half-dozen states and on national cable. The ad plays

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Biden up with two new ads in Wisconsin

Joe Biden is up with two new TV ads in Wisconsin A 60-second Biden spot calls the election “our chance to put the darkness of the past four years behind us” and “start fresh in America.” The campaign didn’t release details of the buy in Wisconsin. It said the spots

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Pence, Harris make Wisconsin swings in push toward November election

Vice President Mike Pence made a pitch to farmers and workers while Dem vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke of the challenges facing minority- and female-owned businesses as the two stumped on opposite sides of Wisconsin this Labor Day. Speaking at Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse, Pence repeatedly praised

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COVID-19, farm crisis among issues in Adams County as November election nears

Adams County, a historic Democratic stronghold with a 15 percent poverty rate (against the state’s overall 10 percent poverty rate), backed President Trump by a margin of 21 percent. Out of the county’s 10,130 votes in 2016, 5,966 went to Trump and only 3,745 went to Hillary Clinton. Until then, Democrats have carried the county with wide margins in every presidential election from 1984 on — coming after Adams had backed Ronald Reagan twice in a row.

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Trump ad focuses on unrest in Kenosha

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is launching a new TV ad in Wisconsin that focuses on the unrest in Kenosha and his response to it. The Trump campaign said new spots in Wisconsin and Minnesota are part of a multi-state buy aimed at early voting states. But it didn’t provide details

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Biden ad denounces rioting, looting

Joe Biden has launched a 60-second spot that uses footage from his speech Monday in Pittsburgh denouncing rioting and looting, calling it “lawlessness” that should be prosecuted. The campaign said the spot is airing nationwide on cable and in 10 states, including Wisconsin. But the release didn’t include details of

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Green Party to sue to get on Wisconsin ballot

The Green Party says it has retained a law firm to file a lawsuit this week challenging a decision by the state Elections Commission to keep its presidential and vice presidential candidates off the November ballot. The move comes after entertainer Kanye West filed a suit in Brown County on

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West sues state to be put on Wisconsin presidential ballot

Entertainer Kanye West on Friday sued to force his way onto Wisconsin’s presidential ballot after the state Elections Commission ruled he turned in his nomination papers late. As it was when the commission rejected West’s nomination papers, the key issue of the lawsuit is what the state’s deadline of “not

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Wisconsin business owner says Trump put government ‘on our side’

The owner of a small Wisconsin foundry told the Republican National Convention this evening President Trump put the government “on our side” by cutting taxes and regulations while providing a boost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Debbie Flood, president of architectural hardware manufacturer Melron Corp. in Schofield, said Joe Biden doesn’t

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Harris says Blake shooting ‘pierced the soul of our nation’

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris kicked off a Biden campaign roundtable focusing on the Black community in Wisconsin by pledging she and Dem presidential nominee Joe Biden will take “meaningful hard-fought action against systems and traditions of oppression.” The Dem vice presidential nominee touched on the shooting of Jacob Blake in

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